Summary of the Book
Do you want to get into Google or any of the other big organizations? This book will show you how you can achieve this and give them the kind of answers they expect in the interviews. If you have an interview with Google coming up, then you can be sure that you’re in soup if you don’t know more than you already know. The market today has place only for the best among the best. This book will reveal to the reader all the questions that are being asked in major interviews today. Big companies are going to great levels to make sure that they get only the best employees and nothing less. The author, William Poundstone, guides you through solutions for some of the most challenging questions and conundrums presented to you in interviews. It shows you the importance of creative thinking, how your Facebook page plays a role in your selection process, and what really goes on inside Google.
“Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?” Book Contents:
* Outnumbered at the Googleplex-3
* The Cult of Creativity-21
* punked and Outweirded-42
* Google's Hiring Machine-51
* Engineers and How Not to Think Like Them-68
* A Field Guide to Devious Interview Questions-80
* Whiteboarding-97
* Dr. Fermi and the Extraterrestrials-106
* The Unbreakable Egg-114
* Weighing Your Head-125
* Answer-137
* Acknowledgements-257
* Websites and videos-259
* Notes-261
* Bibliography-571
* Index-277