I was recently headhunted by an omnipresent technology company that shall remain nameless. It was not Google. That’s too bad, because I really would have liked to take the Google Labs Aptitude Test. It’s as charmingly whimsical as the company itself, asking questions like “what is the most beautiful math equation ever derived?” and “write a haiku describing possible methods for predicting search traffic seasonality”.
I would have failed miserably, because there are some tricky math and programming questions, but here’s my haiku:
Nude celebrities
Presidential elections
make search traffic spike
DarrenBarefoot.com 
I’m thinking the answer to #9 is a bladder or womb. 😛
Darren — how bad are you at Math? If you are really terrible then there is plenty of online help you can get. Alternatively attending night classes would be useful.
Todd
I’m actually all right at math. I’m just not particularly comfortable with, say, questoin #8, “how many different ways can you color and icosahedron with one of three colors on each face?” I could probably do some research and find the answer, but not off the top of my head.
Found you googling “search traffic seasonality.”
My Haiku:
Oscars Elections
Back to school term papersearch
Nudes and Erect1ons
(Spelling error intentional to keep crawlers off page)
An icosahedron is a 20 sided figure. 20 sides, three choices each = 3^20. As there was no uniquity discussed (no same colors touching, etc) it’s a straight problem, or I’m missing something fundamental.
And number nine, in this man’s opinon, is the japanese symbol for liquor (sake – http://www.kanjisite.com/html/start/rhsinfo/r_shusake.html).