- Item type
- Book
- Language
- English
- Publication year
- 2012
- ISBN
- 978-1-85168-955-2
You are shrunk to the height of a penny and thrown in a blender. The blades start moving in sixty seconds. What do you do? If you want to work at Google, or any of the worlds top employers, youll need to have a convincing answer to this and countless other baffling puzzles.
Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? Reveals the new extreme interview questions in the postcrash, hypercompetitive job-market and uncovers the extraordinary lengths to which the best companies will go to find the right staff. Bestselling author William Poundstone guides readers through the surprising solutions to over a hundred of the most challenging conundrums used in interviews, as well as covering the importance of creative thinking, what your Facebook page says about you, and what really goes on inside the Googleplex. How will you fare? - From Amazon
1.Outnumbered at the Googleplex --- What It Takes to Get Hired at a Hyperselective Company --- 2.The Cult of Creativity --- A History of Human Resources, or Why Interviewers Go Rogue --- 3.Punked and Outweirded --- How the Great Recession Mainstreamed Bizarre Interview Questions --- 4.Google's Hiring Machine -- How They Pick the One to Hire out of the 130 Who Apply --- 5.Engineers and How Not to Think Like Them --- The Value of Keeping Things Simple --- 6.A Field Guide to Devious Interview Questions --- Decoding the Interviewer's Hidden Agendas --- 7.Whiteboarding --- The Art of the Visual Solution --- 8.Dr. Fermi and the Extraterrestrials --- How to Estimate Just About Anything in Sixty Seconds or Less --- 9.The Unbreakable Egg --- Questions That Ask "How Would You...?" --- 10.Weighing Your Head --- What to Do When You Draw a Blank..