How Do You Fight a Horse-Sized Duck?
eBook - ePub

How Do You Fight a Horse-Sized Duck?

And Other Perplexing Puzzles from the Toughest Interviews in the World

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

How Do You Fight a Horse-Sized Duck?

And Other Perplexing Puzzles from the Toughest Interviews in the World

About this book

‘An entertaining book we can all enjoy… highly informative and amusing.’ Daily Mail

‘Full of valuable insight…this is a must-read for those looking to nail their next interview.’ Publishers Weekly

How Do You Fight a Horse-Sized Duck? explores the new world of interviewing at A-list employers like Apple, Netflix and Amazon. It reveals more than 70 outrageously perplexing riddles and puzzles and supplies both answers and general strategy for creative problem-solving.

Questions like:

Today is Tuesday. What day of the week will it be 10 years from now on this date?

How would you empty a plane full of Skittles?

How many times would you have to scoop the ocean with a bucket to cause sea levels to drop one foot?

You have a broken calculator. The only number key that works is the 0. All the operator keys work. How can you get the number 24?

How many dogs have the exact same number of hairs?

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Information

Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9780861540082
Subtopic
Personal Success

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword: The Cherry Tree Incident
  6. Part I: A Short History of Assessment
  7. Army Alpha
  8. Bletchley Park
  9. The Blind Audition
  10. Creative Problem-Solving
  11. Part II: Mind Games
  12. Take a Detour
  13. Explore, Plan, Act
  14. Put Yourself in Someone Else’s Place
  15. Part III: Puzzles and Problem-Solving
  16. Your First Reaction Is Wrong
  17. Pay Attention to Unexpected Words
  18. Use an Analogy
  19. Break the Problem into Parts
  20. Draw a Picture
  21. Try a Simpler Version of the Problem
  22. Ask Good Questions
  23. Use a Process of Elimination
  24. Work Backward
  25. Beware of Trick Questions
  26. Guesstimate and Refine
  27. Set Up Equations
  28. Don’t Follow the Wrong Footsteps
  29. Ignore the MacGuffin
  30. List, Count, Divide
  31. Look for a Parallel to the Job
  32. Introduce a New Feature
  33. Afterword: The Edison Fallacy
  34. Acknowledgments
  35. Sources
  36. Notes
  37. Index
  38. Copyright

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