Microsoft 's toughest interview question caused candidates to fall back.

If you are about to take part in an interview with one of the world's leading technology companies, you are mentally prepared for "shocks".

An interviewee at Microsoft revealed a question interviewing him when he was asked to respond to a position at this company. According to his story, getting into Microsoft is equally difficult to apply to Google.

Member Prashant Badgia posted on Quora's website the story of one of his friends who had interviewed at Microsoft. When the last sentence came, the employer asked: "A right triangle has a hypotenuse equal to 10 and the height corresponds to a hypotenuse of 6, count that triangle."

This guy was asked a second level geometry question when he came to interview at Microsofts.

Half wondering why the software recruiter was interested in a second-level geometry question , half wondering if this was any trick, the candidate finally gave the answer that he thought was right. This candidate said: "Sir, the area of ​​any triangle is equal to ½ of the bottom edge of the height, the answer of this question is 0.5 x 10 x 6, ie 30 ".

But this candidate's confident answer was "stamped" by the employer. The employer gave this candidate another chance to answer the question, but he still insisted on his old answer. Finally, the employer confirmed that it was always the wrong answer.

So why did the house apply the right formula, multiplying the right division was not considered correct? This is quite obvious, because a right triangle with such measurements does not exist.

If you remember Pythagoras' theorem, you will answer this question. The theorem is as follows: "In the right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the two right angles" or "c2 = a2 + b2".

Prashant member gives the following explanation: if the hypotenuse is 10, the height derived from the hypotenuse can only be 5, any height of length greater than 5, this triangle is equal does not exist.

And of course, this friend of mine did not finally get a job at Microsoft.