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How Do You Fight a Horse-Sized Duck?: And Other Perplexing Puzzles from the Toughest Interviews in t

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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?

Author: Poundstone William
Publisher: ONEWORLD PUBLICATIONS
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9780861543021
Cover: Paperback
Edition Number: 1
Release Year: 2022

William Poundstone is the author of more than ten non-fiction books, including Fortune's Formula, which was the Amazon Editors' Pick for #1 non-fiction book of 2005. Poundstone has written for The New York Times, Psychology Today, Esquire, Harpers, The Economist, and Harvard Business Review. He has appeared on the Today Show, The David Letterman Show and hundreds of radio talk-shows throughout the world. Poundstone studied physics at MIT and many of his ideas concern the social and financial impact of scientific ideas. His books have sold over half a million copies worldwide.

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