How to Ace the Brainteaser Interview

by John Kador

The inside track on how to beat the "logic puzzle" job interview As if job interviews weren't nerve-wracking enough, many companies, in their pursuit of the brightest and best, have begun beleaguering applicants with tests of logic, creativity, and analytical abilities. Many firms have replaced traditional interview questions such as "Tell us about yourself" or "What's your biggest weakness?" with mind-benders such as:

Genres: Nonfiction

256 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2004

About the author

John Kador is the author of 12 business books. His latest book is "Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust."

John Kador is an independent business writer whose best-selling books and insightful articles have been helping business leaders work smarter and more profitably for more than three decades. John has written more than ten books under his own name as well as an equal number for which he served as ghostwriter.

John’s most recent book is Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust.

Reviews

[Philip · Rating 3 out of 5]

In a book touted as containing "over 150 of the toughest interview questions", Kador has included a few questions of the sort routinely solved by pre-teens on state exams.

This quibble aside, much of the material here overlaps with Poundstone's How Would You Move Mount Fuji? and Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? Poundstone's discussion of the questions is generally superior, although Kador's inclusion of chapters on coding puzzles and business cases might be of interest to those who have already read Poundstone's books.