• News
  • Film and TV
  • Music
  • Tech
  • Features
  • Celebrity
  • Politics
  • Weird
  • Community
  • Advertise
  • Terms
  • Privacy & Cookies
  • LADbible Group
  • LADbible
  • SPORTbible
  • GAMINGbible
  • Tyla
  • UNILAD Tech
  • FOODbible
  • License Our Content
  • About Us & Contact
  • Jobs
  • Latest
  • Topics A-Z
  • Authors
Facebook
Instagram
X
Threads
TikTok
YouTube
Submit Your Content
CEO shares brain teaser he gives in interviews and says candidates have 3 seconds to provide the correct answer

Home> Community> Viral

Updated 10:51 5 Nov 2024 GMTPublished 13:09 31 Oct 2024 GMT

CEO shares brain teaser he gives in interviews and says candidates have 3 seconds to provide the correct answer

Redditors have fumed at the question, but is there a method to the madness?

Joe Yates

Joe Yates

Featured Image Credit: LinkedIn/Dino Dionne

Topics: Business, Social Media, Jobs

Joe Yates
Joe Yates

Joe is a journalist for UNILAD, who particularly enjoys writing about crime. He has worked in journalism for five years, and has covered everything from murder trials to celeb news.

X

@JMYjourno

Advert

Advert

Advert

A CEO's brain teaser shared on Reddit has sent people's heads spinning, with some voicing their outrage over the question.

Another day, another 'brain-teaser' that nobody asked for but we took part in it only to find ourselves frustrated by the law of mathematics and the countless squabbles in the comments that pursue.

Our host for such event is the CEO and president of Genesis Capital Group, an investment management firm, Dino Dionne - and while he may have enraged thousands online, there's no refuting his success.

CEO and president of Genesis Capital Group Dino Dionne (LinkedIn/Dino Dionne)
CEO and president of Genesis Capital Group Dino Dionne (LinkedIn/Dino Dionne)

Advert

So, maybe there is a method to his madness when he explained he provides interviewees with a 'three-second' quiz.

Taking to LinkedIn, he wrote: "I give this test to everyone I interview. If you want the #Job, you have three seconds to provide the correct answer.

"You'd be surprised to hear all the ridiculous excuses I've heard from people who either gave me the wrong answer, or couldn't provide one!

"My six-year old solved in 30 seconds."

Advert

The CEO claimed his six-year-old managed to complete the task (LinkedIn/Dino Dionne)
The CEO claimed his six-year-old managed to complete the task (LinkedIn/Dino Dionne)

Accompanying his post is a picture of an equation titled 'Only for Genius', while the equation read: "3x3-3÷3+3."

As is usually the case with many of these math problems, when it was shared to the Sub-Reddit 'LinkedInLunatics', users each got different answers.

I'll be honest, I got five when I tried to 'solve' it - but there are no brackets so I did it in order, although other people suggested it was 11, while my boss answered one.

Advert

But the majority of people weren't actually answering the question, instead they fumed at the CEO questioning their intelligence.

One wrote: "The correct answer is to end the interview and find a boss that isn’t a tool."

Are you smarter than a CEO's six-year-old? (Getty stock)
Are you smarter than a CEO's six-year-old? (Getty stock)

Another added: "This moron is the exact reason why Brackets/Parentheses were introduced in Maths."

Advert

While a third raged: "Adds the 'my 6 year old can solve it in 30 seconds' as a kicker... but gives said child 10-times longer to solve the equation."

Unfortunately, there was no definitive answer, but there's a good chance it's 11 because one guy showed his working out.

Taking to Reddit he posted: "He and other people keep saying the answer is 1, but I get 11 when following PEMDAS [Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication and Division, and Addition and Subtraction] (multiplication and division first as a single step, so it's 3x3=9 and 3÷3=1, then addition and subtraction next as a single step, so it's 9-1+3 = 11), and 5 when I go straight across (3x3=9, 9-3=6, 6÷3=2, and 2+3=5)."

What did you get?

Choose your content:

10 hours ago
12 hours ago
a day ago
  • 10 hours ago

    Woman bombarded with hundreds of Amazon parcels for over a year discovers shocking reason why

    Kay, from San Jose, even started refusing the deliveries that contained one specific item

    Community
  • 12 hours ago

    Psychologist issues warning to anyone who owns a Labubu with unexpected way they're 'deeply symbolic'

    The trinkets are booming, but an unexpected way they're 'deeply symbolic' may put you off

    Community
  • a day ago

    Man who paid $120 for a 'professional cuddler' reveals why it's not sexual

    The man opened up about his experience on Reddit after feeling 'terrified' beforehand

    Community
  • a day ago

    The Halo Effect explained as people share the ways it makes their lives easier

    It turns out that attractiveness can be a double-edged sword, though...

    Community
  • Amazon's bestselling Ninja Air Fryer now almost half price in flash sale
  • Tech CEO offers workers $30,000 to quit on the spot and is shocked by the results
  • CEO sparks controversy wanting to hold staff 'captive all day long' and not letting them leave for coffee
  • Employee who asked for emergency time off stunned by boss’s shocking response