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.
