Most of us don’t like being put on the spot in a job interview. But if you’re applying for work at Google, Amazon or other dot-com leaders be prepared to tackle some unusual questions. Like, why aren’t manhole covers square?
I’ll let you ponder that universal mystery while I move on to my next item. Wait, you seem a bit puzzled. Maybe you’re thinking the real mystery is why Google uses that type of question to screen candidates?
And Google recruiters are thinking: if they wonder why then they’re too linear thinking for us.
The nearly-departed Business 2.0 offers an amusing quiz to test how much you know about working at Google. The number of gourmet cafés there is a stumper.
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Nothing new here. Microsoft, Apple, and other companies, were doing this over a decade ago. I went through this to land a job at Microsoft. And now that I have well over a decade in the industry working for major players like Microsoft I can tell you that while it makes for interesting media hype it isn’t the most effective way to interview people.