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Problem-Solving
Job Market
Job Interviews
Google
Corporate Culture
Power of Knowledge
Importance of Communication
Deception
Mind Games
Technological Advancement
Group Dynamics
Office Politics
Power of Simplicity
Genius Protagonist
Economic Downturn
Logic Puzzles
Interview Questions
Intelligence
Creativity
Human Resources
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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 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?
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 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?
LanguageEnglish
PublisherOneworld Publications
Release dateApr 1, 2012
ISBN9781780740751
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William Poundstone
William Poundstone is the bestselling author of more than a dozen nonfiction books, including Fortune's Formula, Gaming the Vote and Priceless. His books Labyrinths of Reason and The Recursive Universe were both nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
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Aug 5, 2020
Interesting read, and quick to get through. Also, for me at least, the answer to the title question is totally no. My old nemisis math makes far too much of an appearance in the interview examples :) - Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5
May 30, 2015
I found this book on sale for $4. It said it had insanely difficult puzzles. I bought it for those puzzles. It did not have those puzzles. It's mostly "somewhat-difficult"/"rather tedious" puzzles or questions that no one without a CS degree could dream of answering. Also comes with a hefty dose of preachy career-search advice. The solutions were nice, though. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Jan 11, 2012
This was a fun, insightful and creative book that really gets you thinking. It was fun to get a group of people together, read the question and sit back and listen to the answers. I won this from Goodreads.