Python to the Rescue for Manhole Cover Interview Questions

John Clark Craig
6 min readMar 1, 2021

Be prepared to surprise them during your next job interview!

Photo by Mohammad Rezaie on Unsplash

As the story goes, a bright young programmer interviewing at Google (or was it Microsoft? Or Facebook? … take your pick) was asked to explain why manhole covers are always round, and not square or some other shape.

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John Clark Craig

Author, inventor, entrepreneur — passionate about alternate energy, technology, and how Python programming can help you hack your life.