Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?
Fiendish Interview Questions and Puzzles from the World's Top Companies
1st Edition
Published on 1. April 2012
288 pages
978-1-78074-075-1 (ISBN)
Description
Pit your brains against the taxing riddles used by the world's best companies to select their staff
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
'Subtle and sophisticated... you will love this book.' Observer
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 world's top employers, you'll 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 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?
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
'Subtle and sophisticated... you will love this book.' Observer
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 world's top employers, you'll 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 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?
Reviews / Votes
'Subtle and sophisticated... you will love this book.' * The Observer * 'A great book.' * Business Life * 'Serious ammunition to pack for your next job interview.' * Kirkus Reviews * 'Poundstone offers strategies for making the best of nerve-racking situations, decoding interviewer's hidden agendas, and salvaging a doomed interview, in a solid treatment peppered with mind-bending puzzles. Poundstone's energetic, compelling writing...makes the book fun even for nonjob seekers.' * Publishers Weekly * 'Enjoyable. Editor's Pick.' * The Bookseller * 'As usual, Poundstone delivers. Delightful, fun, and worth a read.' * Seth Godin * 'An enjoyably brainstretching account of the world's toughest, most mischievous job-interview questions. Engaging, fun, constantly challenging - and best of all, Poundstone explains the answers.' * David Rowan, editor of Wired *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
File size
2,83 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78074-075-1 (9781780740751)
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William Poundstone is the bestselling author of over ten bestselling non-fiction books, including Priceless: The Hidden Psychology of Value. He has written for The New York Times, The Economist, Esquire, Psychology Today and Harvard Business Review. His books have sold over half a million copies worldwide.
Content
- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication page
- Epigraph page
- Contents
- 1. Outnumbered at the Googleplex
- 2. The Cult of Creativity
- 3. Punked and Outweirded
- 4. Google's Hiring Machine
- 5. Engineers and How Not to Think Like Them
- 6. A Field Guide to Devious Interview Questions
- 7. Whiteboarding
- 8. Dr. Fermi and the Extraterrestrials
- 9. The Unbreakable Egg
- 10. Weighing Your Head
- Answers
- Acknowledgments
- Websites and Videos
- Notes
- Bibliography
- About the Author
- Index
