美作家披露谷歌面試怪題 提供面試訣竅

An American science writer is set to release a book, in which he enlists all sorts of tricky questions, riddles and several devious interviewing techniques that would enable one to land a job at Google, as well as possibly anywhere in the United States.

美國一位科技作家將出版一本新書，他在其中列舉了各種稀奇古怪的面試問題、謎語、以及多種偏離常規的面試技巧，幫助應聘者在谷歌公司、以及美國的任何一家公司找到工作。

William Poundstone, author of the new book, " Are you Smart Enough To Work At Google?" says that interviewers while recruiting today ask more bizarre and vague questions such as 'Can you swim faster in water or in syrup?' or 'How would you weigh your head?' than normal questions pertaining to the job.

這本新書《想進谷歌工作，你夠聰明嗎？》的作者名爲威廉•龐德斯通。他表示，如今面試官的提問更加稀奇古怪，也更加模糊，比如“你在水中還是糖漿中游得更快？”或者“你怎樣稱自己頭部的重量？”，而不是問和工作有關的問題。

The reason Poundstone says he's offering this guide is because firstly "there are more people than there are jobs and a potential employer can set the bar to entry high and still be assured of a waiting room full of desperate souls". Second, "HR departments are running scared, asking themselves 'How can we make sure our questions have predictive power for how well someone will do on the job?'" he says.

龐德斯通說，自己編寫這本指南是因爲，首先“現在就業機會與勞動力市場處於‘僧多粥少’的局面，面試官可以在招聘時提高門檻，這樣也能保證有足夠的應聘者入圍。”另外，“人力部門非常謹慎，問自己：如何才能保證我們的面試問題能預測到應聘者可以把工作做到多好？”

Many of Google's questions, says Poundstone, are intentionally open-ended. Example: 'How would you devise an evacuation plan for San Francisco?' In most instances, there is no single correct answer. The interviewer's goal is to see how the thinking process of the applicant works, and to gauge his or her creativity in problem-solving, the report said.

據報道，龐德斯通稱谷歌公司的面試問題很多都故意設爲開放式的，比如：“你如何爲舊金山設計一個疏散計劃？”大多數問題都沒有唯一的正確答案。面試官的目的是考察應聘者的思維過程，並且評估其解決問題的創造力。

The book's most useful features include A Field Guide to Devious Interview Questions, which divides questions into categories (e.g., classic logic puzzles, lateral thinking puzzles, insight questions, tests of divergent thinking, etc.), then offers strategies and tips for answering each type, it added.

報道還提到，這本書最有用章節包括《五花八門面試問題實戰指南》，作者將這些問題分類，並給出應答每類問題的策略和小技巧。問題分類包括經典邏輯難題、橫向思維難題、深度問題、和發散思維測試等等。

Interviewers at Google invest effort in coming up with ever-newer and more-devious questions. It's, therefore, more valuable for the applicant to understand the strategy for answering a given type of question than to have a canned answer ready, Poundstone concluded.

龐德斯通總結說，谷歌公司的面試官盡力想出更新奇、更古怪的問題。因此，與準備好的固定答案相比，應聘者理解解題策略更有價值。