Google is famous for the intensity and rigour of its recruitment process. It's not easy to get a job there, and those who have done so are rightly proud of their Google-hood.
Google has acknowledged that its fiendishly difficult interview questions are no predictor of the success of the candidate. Laszlo Bock, the senior vice-president of people operations at Google, said in an interview in The New York Times that "we did a study to determine whether anyone at Google is particularly good at hiring. We looked at tens of thousands of interviews, and everyone who had done the interviews and what they scored the candidate, and how that person ultimately performed in their job. We found zero relationship."
Not very encouraging, is it? Is it true that a job interview merely determines how good a candidate is at job interviews? In which case, you might as well have some fun with the questions.
How lucky are you and why?
What is your least favourite thing about humanity?
How does the internet work?
If you were a box of cereal, which one would you be?
These are all job interview questions, listed in Fast Company as part of Glassdoor's "oddball" job interview questions.
