How Do You Fight a Horse-Sized Duck?
Secrets to Succeeding at Interview Mind Games and Getting the Job You Want
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Publisher Description
Learn how to succeed at interview mind games and win job offers at A‑list companies, with more than eighty difficult and devious questions, puzzles, and brain teasers
Each year about 28 million Americans begin a search for a new job. Many more live in the age of the permanent job search, their online profiles eternally awaiting a better offer. Job seekers are more mobile and better informed than ever, aspiring to work for employers offering an appealing culture, a robust menu of perks, and opportunities for personal fulfillment and advancement. The result is that millions of applications stream to the handful of companies that regularly top listings of the best companies to work for: Apple, Netflix, Amazon, Alphabet, Disney, SpaceX, Oracle, Pricewaterhouse-Coopers, and others. Tesla has received as many as 200 applications for each open position. How do selective employers choose which people to hire? It’s through interviews asking uniquely demanding questions testing imagination, persistence, and creativity, like: Can an astronaut throw a baseball so it hits Earth? If you had $2,000, how would you double it in 24 hours? How is a milk carton like a plane seat? Chicken McNuggets come in boxes of 6, 9, and 20. What’s the largest number of McNuggets that McDonald’s can’t sell you? How many dogs in the world have the exact same number of hairs?How Do You Fight a Horse-Sized Duck? explores the new world of interviewing at A-list employers. It reveals more than eighty notoriously challenging interview questions and supplies both answers and a general strategy for creative problem-solving.
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Journalist Poundstone (The Doomsday Calculation) offers an astute primer on common interviewing tactics and tackling tough questions. "Both employees and employers are more selective than ever," Poundstone writes, and with many job-seekers facing student loan debt and wanting high-paying jobs, the competition is stiff. But recruiters only spend an average of six seconds looking at each résumé, and many require applicants who make it to the interview stage to complete a series of games as a way to further cull the herd. Poundstone takes an informative look at the history of the interviewing process, explores some common mind games (including memory games and math questions), and describes how to improve one's odds of doing well by offering a tutorial on creative problem-solving. He details ways these confounding puzzles can trip up people, and advises such tactics as paying attention to unexpected words, using the process of elimination, and working backward to help boost one's chances of success. Full of valuable insight on effectively navigating the interviewing process, this is a must-read for those looking to nail their next interview.
