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"Quit wasting my fucking time google-interviewer."

"Correct. You're hired."

If only it was that easy.

Using a swimming technique to push off the air the bug could either gain momentum by using the bottle's sloped bottom as a kind of half-pipe, or start moving in a circular path until sufficient speed were built up that the bug would begin moving up the bottle's side.

Alternatively, the bug could fly out if it's that kind of bug. Or it could knock the bottle over by rocking it.

Clearly I'm Google material because of my "bug in frictionless jar" degree.

The bottle can be tipped to its side, and the bug can hop over the lid.

I fully admit there might have been a detail I'm neglecting that made it more clearly useful, but I do know for a fact it didn't fall in the "market estimation" bin, either. At least not fully or obviously.