Can You Solve Elon Musk and Microsoft’s Favorite Interview Puzzle?

elon musk puzzle
elon musk puzzle

Short Bytes: Today I’m bringing to you a brainteaser that is a personal favorite of Elon Musk and finds a frequent place in Microsoft’s set of interview questions. Check it out and see if you can you solve this puzzle.

Elon Musk is known for actively taking part in the selection of his company’s employees. In the past, the co-founder of SpaceX, Tesla Motors, and PayPal has even taken the route of Twitter to recruit brilliant candidates for his companies.

However, during the interviews, very often he asks a particular puzzle after asking other questions to the potential candidates. Well, not many people are able to solve this riddle.

Willing to know the confusing puzzle? Here it is:

You’re standing on the surface of the Earth. You walk one mile south, one mile west, and one mile north. You end up exactly where you started. Where are you?

This question has a history in the tech industry. Microsoft is also known to include this brainteaser in their set of crazy technical interview questions.

So, what do you think? Are you able to solve the puzzle without any help?

You can check out the following video for some help and share your answers in the comments below.

Take a look at some other interview questions of the biggest tech companies:

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