It's hiring and firing season on Wall Street. That means it's interview time for the new guys fresh out of college, and for the old guys who didn't make it through the recent round of cuts.

你向往在华尔街工作吗?想不想见识一下那些顶尖金融公司的面试题呢?下面这12个问题是亲身参加过面试的人分享的。如果是你，要怎么回答呢?
Here are some of the best interview questions that have been asked at Wall Street firms. Some tests are to see how well you solve problems analytically. Others are harder: tests to see how well you'll "fit" with the firm. Ie. Do you have the right personality?

　　以下是华尔街面试中曾被问到的一些犀利问题。有些旨在测试你分析解决问题的能力。其他的就难以搞定了。这些问题旨在判断你是否适合公司，换句话说就是你的个性是否是他们想要的?

　　1. CITIGROUP: "What is your strategy at table tennis?"

　　花旗集团：你打乒乓时采用什么战略?

　　2. HEDGE FUND: "Tell me a clean joke."

　　某对冲基金公司：讲个非黄色笑话吧。

　　3. APITAL ONE: "How do you evaluate Subway's $5 foot-long sub policy?"

　　第一资本金融公司：你如何评价赛百味快餐推出的5美元三明治促销活动?”

　　4. HEDGE FUND: "What's the best e-mail address you've ever seen, and why?"

　　某对冲基金公司：你见过的最好的邮箱地址是怎样的?为什么?

　　5. BROWN &BROWN INSURANCE: "How would you rate your life on a scale of 1 to 10?"

　　布朗&布朗保险公司：如果满分是10分，你给自己的生活打几分?

　　6. GOLDMAN SACHS: "Suppose you had eight identical balls. One of them is slightly heavier and you are given a balance scale. What's the fewest number of times you have to use the scale to find the heavier ball?

　　高盛集团：假设你有8个外观相同的球，其中一个比其他稍重。如果给你一个天平，最少称几次你可以找出这只稍重的球?

　　7. UBS: "If we were playing Russian roulette and had one bullet, I randomly spun the chamber and fired but nothing was fired, would you rather fire the gun again or respin the chamber and then fire on your turn?"

　　瑞士联合银行：如果我们玩俄罗斯轮盘并且只有一颗子弹，我在转了弹轮之后开枪，没子弹了。轮到你时，你是打开手枪转一圈再对着自己开枪还是直接就拿着我刚开过的枪射自己呢?

　　8. JANE STREET CAPITAL: "What is the smallest number divisible by 225 that consists of all 1s and 0s?"

　　简街资本：能被225整除，只包含0和1的最小的数字是多少?

　　9. GOLDMAN SACHS: "How many penguins would it take to surround the North Pole? And give two standard deviations from your answer."

　　高盛集团：需要多少只企鹅才可以绕北极一圈?从答案里给出两个标准差。

　　10. MERRILL LYNCH: "Tell me about your life from kindergarten onwards."

　　美林证券公司：讲讲你的一生，从幼儿园开始吧。

　　11. GOLDMAN SACHS: "If you were shrunk to the size of a pencil and put in a blender, how would you get out?"

　　高盛集团：如果你被压缩到只有铅笔那么大，然后放进了搅拌机，你如何逃出来?

　　12. BLACKROCK: "What's the √.1?"

　　贝莱德房地产：√.1是什么?