評論
打印
An American science writer is set to release a book, in which he enlists all sorts of tricky questions, riddles and several devious interviewing techniques that would enable one to land a job at Google, as well as possibly anywhere in the United States.
美國一位科技作家即將推出新書，在其中列舉了各種有意思的面試問題、謎語、以及多種和常規方法不一樣的面試技巧，來幫助求職者在谷歌或美國的任何公司找到工作。
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 questions such as 'Can you swim faster in water or in syrup?' or 'How would you weigh your head?' than normal questions pertaining to the job.
新書《進谷歌工作，你夠聰明嗎？》的作者名為威廉·龐德斯通。他表示，如今面試官問的問題更稀奇古怪，也更加不著邊際，比如“你在水中還是糖漿中游得更快？”或“你怎樣稱自己頭部的重量？”，而不是問與工作相關的問題。
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.
龐德斯通說，自己撰寫這本指南有以下兩點原因，首先“現在勞動力市場的情況是‘供大于求’，面試官可以在招聘時提高門檻，這樣也能保證有足夠的應聘者應征。”另外，“人力部門現在非常謹慎，他們會問自己：如何設計面試問題才能體現出應聘者究竟可以把工作做到多好？”
Many of Google's questions, says Poundstone, are intentionally 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 applicant works, and to gauge his or her creativity in problem-solving.
龐德斯通稱谷歌的面試問題很多都有意設成開放式的，比如：“你如何為舊金山設計一個疏散計劃？”大多數問題都沒有唯一的正確答案。面試官的目的是考察應聘者的思考過程，并且評估其在解決問題上的創造力。
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.
龐德斯通總結道，谷歌公司的面試官盡力想出更新奇古怪的問題。因此，與準備好答案相比，應聘者理解解題策略將更有競爭力。
