An American science writer is set to release a book, in which he enlists1 all sorts of tricky2 questions, riddles3 and several devious4 interviewing techniques that would enable one to land a job at Google, as well as possibly anywhere in the United States.
美国一位科技作家将出版一本新书，他在其中列举了各种稀奇古怪的面试问题、谜语、以及多种偏离常规的面试技巧，帮助应聘者在谷歌公司、以及美国的任何一家公司找到工作。
William Poundstone, author of the new book, "Are you Smart Enough To Work At Google?" says that interviewers while recruiting today ask more bizarre and
vague（模糊的） questions such as 'Can you swim faster in water or in
syrup（糖浆，果汁）?' or 'How would you weigh your head?' than normal questions
pertaining5 to the job.
The reason Poundstone says he's offering this guide is because firstly "there are more people than there are jobs and a potential employer can set the bar to entry high and still be assured of a waiting room full of desperate souls". Second, "HR departments are running scared, asking themselves 'How can we make sure our questions have predictive power for how well someone will do on the job?'" he says.
Many of Google's questions, says Poundstone, are
intentionally6 open-ended. Example: 'How would you devise an evacuation plan for San Francisco?' In most instances, there is no single correct answer. The interviewer's goal is to see how the thinking process of the
applicant7 works, and to
gauge8 his or her creativity in problem-solving, the report said.
The book's most useful features include A Field Guide to Devious Interview Questions, which divides questions into categories (e.g., classic
logic9 puzzles,
lateral10 thinking puzzles, insight questions, tests of divergent thinking, etc.), then offers strategies and tips for answering each type, it added.
Interviewers at Google invest effort in coming up with ever-newer and more-devious questions. It's, therefore, more valuable for the applicant to understand the strategy for answering a given type of question than to have a canned answer ready, Poundstone concluded.
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