Are You Smart Enough To Work For Google?

Why are manhole covers round? How do you weigh your own head? This can be asked during a job interview at Google.

Author William Poundstone stands behind the book "" Are you smart enough to work at Google? ", Where he discusses various interview methods used in job interviews with several of the world's leading companies.

For example if you dream of a job in Google you should prepare to answer questions such as:

"How much toilet paper you would need to cover Texas?", "How many vacuum cleaners are made every year?", "Swim faster in water or syrup?" Or "How would you proceed to weigh your own head?" .

Important to think creatively:

According to the author, it is not always the answer which is most important, and often there are not any right or wrong answers. Poundstone tells ABC News that the HR departments are terrified of hiring the wrong people to key positions, and that they therefore have adopted techniques that reveal candidates' ability r to resonate and think creatively about such issues.

The most important thing is to ask follow-up questions to show that you understand the question. The company applying for a job at looking to figure out how to think and reason your way to the answer being given, he said.

Whatever the issue is, you can request that it be specified in detail, he writes, and comes with an example:

When you say swimming in syrup, you mean a particular type, such as maple syrup, or simply a liquid that is thicker than water?

Are You Smart Enough To Work For Google?

Poundstone explains that there is no absolute proof that this type of question gives no real indication on what they look for, but there is plenty of documentation (including a Harvard study) showing that most hiring decisions have more to do with an applicant's appearance or language than they have to do with his or her intellect.

Here are some more examples of questions that are often used:

1. Why are manhole covers round?
2. How many piano tuners are there in the world?
3. You are shrunk to the size of a coin and gets thrown in a blender. The leaves begin to spin about 60 seconds.What are you doing?
4. How much you would have had to pay to wash all the windows in Seattle?
5. By only using a four-minute hourglass and a seven-minute hourglass, how would you measured exactly nine minutes, without spending more than nine minutes on the task?
6. How would you put an evacuation plan for San Francisco?
7. What is the next number in this pattern? 10, 9, 60, 90, 70, 66.
8. A man pushed his car to a (hotel) and lost his fortune. What happened?
9. How many times a day overlaps the hands on a clock?