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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 (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
The answer is I want to be which is why I am glad I read it. I encourage others to read it too.I feel I would have to read it again to be able to capture all the details that were in the book. The most memorable parts were relating to the dissection of the more outlandish questions, and not so much the computer science algorithm questions. I enjoyed how William Poundstone described these questions, the origins of the questions, and the logic behind them as a means of understanding how knowledgeable and creative an interviewee would need to be.Yet as it was mentioned that if interviewees turned employee, there was no clear correlation of success at the job. Which is not the point of that portion of the reading in so much as when I read it most people don't enjoy their jobs as it is. And as it indicates this helps with thinking about how to interview for a job you want in the new economy. Which to say is encouraging as we all need a prepared mind to be favored by chance. The very first thing that attracted my attention was the title: “Are you smart enough to work at Google?” Of course the engineer in me wanted to pick up this book, read it, study it and finally say: “YES!” I was really fascinated by this book. It is filled with complex puzzles and brainteasers which really gets the grey matter moving and neurons fired up. The book mainly discusses some of the most interesting and difficult interview questions ever asked. Yes, you read correctly, interview questions. As the author describes, in today’s job market you have a lot more highly qualified applicants for jobs than a few decades ago. So how do the employers get the best of the best creative, innovative thinkers? They ensure that you have the interview from hell by testing your ability to reason logically and think outside the box with questions that, on the surface, seem to have no relation to the job you are actually applying for. This is the new trend in job interviews today where such questions are used as a cloak to not only determine your creativity and innovative thinking, but also cover the standard questions which test your knowledge in the subject matter, ability to work in a team, etc. Discussing over 100 different brainteasers and puzzles, this is not only a fun and informative read, but will hopefully prepare you should you ever encounter any of these questions in an interview, especially if you want to work at Google. So am I smart enough to work at Google? Definitely not! How about you?
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A balanced mixture of theoretical content explaining the market trends and mind twisters .
—KewlKate
Got this for my son as a Christmas gift. Previewing it for him. ;-)
—G8rgirl96
