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How Do You Fight a Horse-Sized Duck?

And Other Perplexing Puzzles from the Toughest Interviews in the World

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'An entertaining book we can all enjoy... highly informative and amusing.' Daily Mail

'Full of valuable insight...this is a must-read for those looking to nail their next interview.' Publishers Weekly

How Do You Fight a Horse-Sized Duck? explores the new world of interviewing at A-list employers like Apple, Netflix and Amazon. It reveals more than 70 outrageously perplexing riddles and puzzles and supplies both answers and general strategy for creative problem-solving.

Questions like:

Today is Tuesday. What day of the week will it be 10 years from now on this date?

How would you empty a plane full of Skittles?

How many times would you have to scoop the ocean with a bucket to cause sea levels to drop one foot?

You have a broken calculator. The only number key that works is the 0. All the operator keys work. How can you get the number 24?

How many dogs have the exact same number of hairs?
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 31, 2021
      Journalist Poundstone (The Doomsday Calculation) offers an astute primer on common interviewing tactics and tackling tough questions. “Both employees and employers are more selective than ever,” Poundstone writes, and with many job-seekers facing student loan debt and wanting high-paying jobs, the competition is stiff. But recruiters only spend an average of six seconds looking at each résumé, and many require applicants who make it to the interview stage to complete a series of games as a way to further cull the herd. Poundstone takes an informative look at the history of the interviewing process, explores some common mind games (including memory games and math questions), and describes how to improve one’s odds of doing well by offering a tutorial on creative problem-solving. He details ways these confounding puzzles can trip up people, and advises such tactics as paying attention to unexpected words, using the process of elimination, and working backward to help boost one’s chances of success. Full of valuable insight on effectively navigating the interviewing process, this is a must-read for those looking to nail their next interview. Agent: John Brockman, Brockman Inc.

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