The Wall Street Journal had an article on Dec 24 called "How To Ace the Google interview."
"Imagine a man named Jim. He's applying for a job at Google. Jim knows that the odds are stacked against him. Google receives a million job applications a year. It's estimated that only about 1 in 130 applications results in a job. By comparison, about 1 in 14 high-school students applying to Harvard gets accepted. The first and only question he got was the following. Since he had no answer the interview was ended.
"Imagine a man named Jim. He's applying for a job at Google. Jim knows that the odds are stacked against him. Google receives a million job applications a year. It's estimated that only about 1 in 130 applications results in a job. By comparison, about 1 in 14 high-school students applying to Harvard gets accepted. The first and only question he got was the following. Since he had no answer the interview was ended.
You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and thrown into a blender. Your mass is reduced so that your density is the same as usual. The blades start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do?"
The story points out that even mainstream companies are now using these type interviews. There is a whole new world out there. Many will not survive.
What is most impressive to me is that everything is reversed from what we have known. What was once trade secrets is on the company website. What used to be sold is free. And marketing that once meant creating ads to get people interested in products now means creating products to get interest in the ads.
Safety and security, rather than poverty, is the major problem of the 21st century. And safety and security with a broadly expanded definition to meet the needs of post industrial society. Safety is becoming a part of every product and service. Safety is no longer a process. New ways of thinking are needed to retrofit safety and security to existing products and services and to embed safety and security into new products and services.
The google interview questions may not be so unusual after all.
David Sneed
What is most impressive to me is that everything is reversed from what we have known. What was once trade secrets is on the company website. What used to be sold is free. And marketing that once meant creating ads to get people interested in products now means creating products to get interest in the ads.
Safety and security, rather than poverty, is the major problem of the 21st century. And safety and security with a broadly expanded definition to meet the needs of post industrial society. Safety is becoming a part of every product and service. Safety is no longer a process. New ways of thinking are needed to retrofit safety and security to existing products and services and to embed safety and security into new products and services.
The google interview questions may not be so unusual after all.
David Sneed
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