Emerald | Are you Smart Enough to Work at Google: Fiendish Puzzles and Impossible Interview Questions from the World's Top Companies
European Journal of Training and Development
Article Information: Are you Smart Enough to Work at Google: Fiendish Puzzles and Impossible Interview Questions from the World's Top Companies To cite this article: David McGuire, (2013) "Are you Smart Enough to Work at Google: Fiendish Puzzles and Impossible Interview Questions from the World's Top Companies", European Journal of Training and Development, Vol. 37 Iss: 5, pp.502 - 504 To copy this article: permissions@emeraldinsight.com
The Reviewers
David McGuire, School of Management, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK RR 2013/2 Review Subject: Are you Smart Enough to Work at Google: Fiendish Puzzles and Impossible Interview Questions from the World's Top Companies William Poundstone Publisher Name: OneWorld Publications Place of Publication: Oxford Publication Year: 2012 ISBN: 9781851689170 Price: £8.99 ($12.26), paperback Article type: Review Pages: 290 pages Keywords: Emerald Journal: European Journal of Training and Development Volume: 37 Number: 5 Year: 2013 pp. 502-504 Copyright: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited ISSN: 2046-9012 Book synthesis With a subtitle of “Fiendish Puzzles and Impossible Interview Questions from the World's Top Companies”, this text sets out to explore the evolving approaches taken by the world's leading companies to recruiting and selecting the most creative and innovative staff. With companies such as Google receiving over one million job applications a year, organisations are looking for more sophisticated and original ways of zoning in on the most skilled applicants and rejecting unsuitable job-seekers. In the current recessionary and cost-cutting environment with many organisations becoming over flooded with applications for all positions, the use of unconventional interview questions and the