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Are you smart enough to work at Google?, trick questions, zen-like riddles, insanely difficult puzzles, and other devious interviewing techniques you need to know to get a job anywhere in the new economy, William Poundstone

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Are you smart enough to work at Google?, trick questions, zen-like riddles, insanely difficult puzzles, and other devious interviewing techniques you need to know to get a job anywhere in the new economy, William Poundstone

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-275) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Are you smart enough to work at Google?

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

688643445

Responsibility statement

William Poundstone

Sub title

trick questions, zen-like riddles, insanely difficult puzzles, and other devious interviewing techniques you need to know to get a job anywhere in the new economy

Summary

Presents answers and solutions to some of the weirdest and most challenging interview questions and discusses the importance of creative thinking and how to beat your competition in today's job market

Table Of Contents

Outnumbered at the Googleplex : what it takes to get hired at a hyperselective company -- The cult of creativity : A history of human resources, or why interviewers go rogue -- Punked and outweirded : how the Great Recession mainstreamed bizarre interview questions -- Google's hiring machine : how they pick the one to hire out of the 130 who apply -- Engineers and how not to think like them : the value of keeping things simple -- A field guide to devious interview questions : decoding the interviewer's hidden agendas -- Whiteboarding : the art of the visual solution -- Dr. Fermi and the extraterrestrials : how to estimate just about anything in sixty seconds or less -- The unbreakable egg : questions that ask "how would you--?" -- Weighing your head : what to do when you draw a blank

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