Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?: Fiendish Interview Questions and Puzzles from the World’s Top Companies - Softcover

Poundstone, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1851689176 ISBN 13: 9781851689170

Publisher: Oneworld Publications, 2012

Synopsis

Pit your brains against the taxing riddles used by the world's best companies to select their staff

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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 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?

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About the Author

William Poundstone is the author of seventeen books including How to Predict Everything, How to Predict the Unpredictable and Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? He has written for the Economist, New York Times, Harper’s and Harvard Business Review, among others. You can find out more about him on his website: william-poundstone.com

Edition details

• Publisher: Oneworld Publications
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1851689176
• ISBN 13: 9781851689170
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288