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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.

By: Publication details: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 290 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780316099974 :
  • 031609997X :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HF5549.5.I6 P678 2012
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.

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.

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

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