My partial answers for the GLAT (Google Labs Aptitude Test)

4. You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. There is a dusty laptop here with a weak wireless connection. There are dull, lifeless gnomes strolling around. What dost thou do?
A) Wander aimlessly, bumping into obstacles until you are eaten by a grue.
B) Use the laptop as a digging device to tunnel to the next level.
C) Play MPoRPG until the battery dies along with your hopes.
D) Use the computer to map the nodes of the maze and discover an exit path.
E) Email your resume to Google, tell the lead gnome you quit and find yourself in whole different world.

5. What's broken with Unix? How would you fix it?
Linux is fulfilling the broken Unix promises of hardware and software vendor neutrality, application and infrastructure portability, and the competitive agility afforded by using the best combination of technologies.

Quoted from this story.

6. On your first day at Google, you discover that your cubicle mate wrote the textbook you used as a primary resource in your first year of graduate school. Do you:
A) Fawn obsequiously and ask if you can have an autograph.
B) Sit perfectly still and use only soft keystrokes to avoid disturbing her concentration
C) Leave her daily offerings of granola and English toffee from the food bins.
D) Quote your favorite formula from the textbook and explain how it's now your mantra.
E) Show her how example 17b could have been solved with 34 fewer lines of code.

7. Which of the following expresses Google's over-arching philosophy?
A) "I'm feeling lucky"
B) "Don't be evil"
C) "Oh, I already fixed that"
D) "You should never be more than 50 feet from food"
E) All of the above

9. This space left intentionally blank. Please fill it with something that improves upon emptiness.
(Keep this space blank)

11. It's 2PM on a sunny Sunday afternoon in the Bay Area. You're minutes from the Pacific Ocean, redwood forest hiking trails and world class cultural attractions. What do you do?

Go home, take a nap and ready myself for new challenges in the upcoming week days.

12. In your opinion, what is the most beautiful math equation ever derived?



13. Which of the following is NOT an actual interest group formed by Google employees?
A. Women's basketball
B. Buffy fans
C. Cricketeers
D. Nobel winners
E. Wine club

14. What will be the next great improvement in search technology?

Search information that is not even on the internet.

15. What is the optimal size of a project team, above which additional members do not contribute productivity equivalent to the percentage increase in the staff size?
A) 1
B) 3
C) 5
D) 11
E) 24

18. What is the coolest hack you've ever written?

The next hack about to be written in the near future.

21. In 29 words or fewer, describe what you would strive to accomplish if you worked at Google Labs.

To accomplish Google's mission, which is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.

Other answers can be found here.