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Money and brains

Forwarded by a local friend: a survey of Shanghai salary levels for a variety of professions.  I found this to be a interesting read... just how much are the supposed low wages of China?  And for folks here in SH, how much are you being over/underpaid in this market?

Interesting stuff...


And on another note, apparently this was an actual question asked at an interview for a 1 million+ RMB (125K USD)/year job here:
Both Dumb and Dumber are Dr. Strangelove's students.  Dr. Strangelove's birthday is Day N of Month M.  Neither student knows which date it is from the following ten dates.  Dr. Strangelove told M to Dumb and N to Dumber and asked them if they got her birthday.

4 March, 5 March, 8 March
4 June, 7 June
1 Sep, 5 Sep
1 Dec, 2 Dec, 8 Dec

Dumb said, "If I don't know, neither will Dumber."
Dumber said, "Originally I didn't know, but now I got it."
Dumb said, "Oh, now I got it too."

Please infer Dr. Strangelove's birthday based on the above dialogue in one hour.


Have fun! =)

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Comments (8)

I got June 4th, after about 35 minutes of thinking about it. =)
oops... it's Sept 1st. =P
hm i cant decide between sept 1 or 5 ... is it really supposed to take an hour?
is there a language barrier to this riddle? i.e. would the riddle make more sense in chinese or something?
ryu2:
Nope, no language barrier -- in fact, I'm guessing the question was asked in English... as is the usual interviewing practice of most MNCs here.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh  mark! what's the answer?march 4th?
I got Sept. 1 as well.
ryu2:
Let's just say that Dr. Strangelove's birthday is coming up in a few days... ;)

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