Question 1

True or false: Marissa Mayer’s first job out of college was at a Wall Street bank.

Accepted Answer

False. She went directly from Stanford to Google. Her only other job was a brief internship at SRI International.

Question 2

True or false: Mayer banned working from home at Yahoo shortly after becoming CEO.

Accepted Answer

True. In 2013, she ended remote work at Yahoo to boost collaboration, sparking major controversy and media backlash.

Question 3

True or false: Mayer helped create Google News and Google Images.

Accepted Answer

True. As a product manager, she led the launch of Google News and Google Images, two of Google’s most iconic services.

Question 4

True or false: Marissa Mayer was the first female engineer hired at Google.

Accepted Answer

True. She was Google’s first female engineer, joining in 1999 as employee #20, long before the company’s massive hiring spree.

Question 5

True or false: Marissa Mayer earned a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford.

Accepted Answer

False. She has a master’s in computer science, not a Ph.D. She left Stanford’s Ph.D. program early to join Google.

Question 6

True or false: Mayer once appeared on the cover of Fortune magazine wearing a Google-branded T-shirt.

Accepted Answer

True. In 2005, Fortune featured her on its cover in a Google T-shirt, symbolizing the rise of female tech executives.

Question 7

True or false: Mayer personally designed the original Google homepage logo.

Accepted Answer

False. The logo was created by Sergey Brin using GIMP, not by Mayer. She did, however, oversee its minimal white space and design.

Question 8

True or false: Marissa Mayer was an early investor in Facebook before it went public.

Accepted Answer

False. She invested in Facebook later, via a personal stake after it was public, not during its early private rounds.

Marissa Mayer Trivia Questions