Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?: Trick Questions, Zen-like Riddles, Insanely Difficult Puzzles, and Other Devious Interviewing Techniques You Know to Get a Job Anywhere in the New Economy
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (813 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0316099988 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Tackling them is incredibly gratifying, when you're not withering under the baleful eye of a potential employer."New Scientist Culture Lab"For those in the job market, Poundstone provides a handy survey of killer questions and how to answer them. Poundstone's energetic, compelling writingmakes the book fun even for nonjob seekers."Publishers Weekly"A neat little manifesto on interview techniqueTouring through a huge number of puzzles, he provides a truly exhaustive account of all the factors you're meant to consider when thinking your way through the solutions. For others, he offers the challenge of matching wits with people at America's most innovative companies. As for employers, he presents a timely warning about creative thinking and why job interviews don't workThe format af
Learn the importance of creative thinking, how to get a leg up on the competition, what your Facebook page says about you, and much more.You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and thrown in a blender. What do you do? If you want to work at Google, or any of America's best companies, you need to have an answer to this and other puzzling questions.Are you Smart Enough to Work at Google? is a must read for anyone who wants to succeed in today's job market.. The blades start moving in 60 seconds. Are you Smart Enough to Work at Google? guides readers through the surprising solutions to dozens of the most challenging interview questions
He lives in Los Angeles. . William Poundstone is the author of twelve books, including How Would You Move Mount Fuji? and Fortune's Formula, which was Editors' pick for the #1 nonfiction book of the year in 2005. He has written for the New York Times, Harper's, Harvard Business Review, and the Vill
"Informative for interviewing at Google and beyond, but don't get your hopes up" according to Winston Kotzan. I found this to be an entertaining and informative read about the riddle-type questions that are now so popular in job interviews. Some of the advice offered could give you ideas on how to answer such questions if you are faced with them during an interview. Importantly, it could help you better struct. This Book Will Make You Enjoy Job Hunting(alibi maybe) First of all, William Poundstone is a very good writer, and a bright guy to boot. This is a good book just to give you the answer to those crazy puzzles you often find not only in interviews, but in puzzle books. It's a pleasure to read and you really learn a lot. A book worth buying no matter what you. but this book is a good selection of quirky puzzles I don't know about Google interview questions, but this book is a good selection of quirky puzzles. It also has good explanations of how to arrive with the answers to specific puzzles. My new book, available on Amazon, talks, among other things, about general principles of solving many types of problem