Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:Tech companies like Amazon are rumored to pose challenging math problems during interviews. A viral YouTube video explores a tricky math problem allegedly used in an Amazon interview. If the rumors are true, you might just have to be ready to answer a challenging math problem on the spot. A viral YouTube video claims that a prospective employee encountered one such problem during an Amazon job interview for software engineers and developers. It went like this:A cable of 80 meters is hanging from the top of two poles that are both 50 meters off the ground.