How Do You Fight a HorseSized Duck?, William Poundstone
How Do You Fight a HorseSized Duck?, William Poundstone
List: $19.99 | Sale: $13.99
Club: $9.99

How Do You Fight a Horse-Sized Duck?
Secrets to Succeeding at Interview Mind Games and Getting the Job You Want

Author: William Poundstone

Narrator: Joel Richards

Unabridged: 8 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/20/2021

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Each year about 28 million Americans begin a search for a new job. Millions more live in the age of the permanent job search, their online profiles eternally awaiting a better offer. Job seekers are more mobile and better informed than ever, aspiring to work for employers offering an appealing culture, a robust menu of perks, and opportunities for personal fulfillment and advancement. The result is that millions of applications stream to the handful of companies that regularly top listings of the best companies to work for: Apple, Netflix, Amazon, Alphabet, Disney, SpaceX, Oracle, Pricewaterhouse-Coopers, and others. How do selective employers choose which people to hire? It's through interviews asking uniquely demanding questions testing imagination, persistence, and creativity, like:

● Can an astronaut throw a baseball so it hits the Earth?

● If you had $2,000, how would you double it in twenty-four hours?

● How is a milk carton like a plane seat?

● Chicken McNuggets come in boxes of six, nine, and twenty. What's the largest number of McNuggets that McDonald's can't sell you?

About William Poundstone

William Poundstone is an author, columnist, and skeptic. His many books include Prisoner's Dilemma, Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?, and Priceless.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Reading_ on May 30, 2024

Thought provoking and must read for the new gen. We all have been caught up in the most futile things when we should actually focus on the reality hidden behind the jobs we are looking for. It’s high time we know the difference between what it actually is and what it seems to be. Yes, things will ke......more

Goodreads review by Tracey Allen on October 20, 2021

I have a background in HR and still offer interview coaching services, so when I saw Bloomsbury were publishing a book about interview questions, I requested a review copy right away. How Do You Fight a Horse-Sized Duck? And Other Perplexing Puzzles from the Toughest Interviews in the World by Willi......more

Goodreads review by Amy on November 07, 2023

I enjoyed reading this as someone with a passing interest is puzzles, riddles and statistics. I have no particular interest in interviewing and employment but the book is written well enough that I found it all enjoyable and quite fascinating at times. Not being especially familiar with this type of......more

Goodreads review by Mikhail on September 23, 2021

This book a sequel to "How would you move Mount Fuji". First part, with an overview of the history of interviewing (starting from Thomas Edison questionnaire) is quite interesting. The second part contains a lot of puzzles. Not bad, but not really applicable to Software engineering anymore, where mo......more

Goodreads review by Florent on September 16, 2021

Don't take the audiobook I took the audiobook. It's ok for the first (interesting) part about the history of job interview. For the accumulation of puzzles, you realize that you would have been better with the book version, a piece of paper and a pencil, try to solve them by yourself. So in the end I wa......more