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 | : | 4.77 (859 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0316099988 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Are you Smart Enough to Work at Google? guides readers through the surprising solutions to dozens of the most challenging interview questions. 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.. 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. The blades start moving in 60 seconds
Informative for interviewing at Google and beyond, but don't get your hopes up 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 structure your thought process and demeanor when tackling such interview questions. However, this book alone would probably not help you get a job at Google or anywhere else - riddles or n. This Book Will Make You Enjoy Job Hunting(alibi maybe) Dr. R. D. B. Laime 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 are trying to find---a job--solutions to puzzles and more.. but this book is a good selection of quirky puzzles A Reader from PA 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 problems without knowing the specific solution:amazon.com/Become-Inventor-Idea-Generating-Problem-Solving-Techniques/dp/1508936838
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. "Serious ammunition to pack for your next job interview."Kirkus"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. 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 affords Poundstone room to display his scientific knowledge, mathematical fluency and knack for explaining t
He has written for the New York Times, Harper's, Harvard Business Review, and the Village Voice, among other publications. 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 lives in Los Angeles