Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?

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

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 postcrash, 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?

  • Format: Paperback | 304 pages
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 27mm | 340g
  • Publication date: 07 Mar 2013
  • Publisher: Oneworld Publications
  • Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • Illustrations note: Illustrations
  • ISBN10: 1851689559
  • ISBN13: 9781851689552
  • Bestsellers rank: 50,974

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