Every recruitment interview looks different, so there is no point in looking for a single pattern on the Internet. It usually lasts 30-60 minutes and you may be questioned by one or more people. You should elegantly and properly prepare for such a meeting. Sometimes knowing about the company you are applying to is not enough. People who applied for a position at Google experienced this very well.
What does the recruitment meeting look like? They check not only knowledge about the company
Lewin C. Lin is a coach from Seattle. In 2009, he created 140 questions that Google asked its candidates during job interviews. They are divided into several parts, depending on who is applying for which position. There are standard questions about knowledge and skills, such as “What is the biggest advantage of having a technical background?”, “How do you know when a project is complete?”, “Name three non-Google sites that you frequently visit and like,” and “How would you price our product?” However, there are many questions that would leave anyone stunned. In this way, the company wanted to surprise the candidates and immediately eliminate from the recruitment those people who were unable to get out of the situation.
Sample job interview. These are the questions Google asked candidates
Google has been asking potential employees original questions for many years. At some point they decided to give it up because they decided that there was no point in asking about abstract things that had no connection with the company. Here are some sample questions that have been removed from the recruitment process:
- How many golf balls can fit on a school bus?
- How many shampoo bottles are produced annually in the world?
- How much should you pay to clean all your windows in Seattle?
- How many times during the day do the hands of a clock overlap?
- How many piano tuners are there in the world?
- Imagine you have a closet full of shirts. Finding a specific shirt is very difficult. So what can you do to organize your shirts and retrieve them easily?
- Design an evacuation plan for San Francisco.
- How many vacuum cleaners are produced annually in the USA?
- If you look at a clock and the time is 3:15, what is the angle between the hour and minute hands?
- Every man in a village of 100 married couples cheated on his wife. Every wife in the village knows immediately when a man other than her husband has cheated on her, but she does not know when her own husband has done it. There is a law in the village that does not allow adultery. Any wife who proves that her husband is unfaithful should kill him that same day. The women of the village would never break this law. One day, the queen of the village visits them and announces that at least one of their husbands has been unfaithful. What’s going on?
Source: Gazeta
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