Brilliance at the interview

Most job interviews are like fencing matches with Nerf swords. The interviewer fires up a softball question, the candidate responds with a canned answer. This continues until both people get so numb that they begin slamming their heads against the desk.

Dave Murphy

As John Kador explains in "How to Ace the Brainteaser Interview" (McGraw- Hill), "Interviewers look to brainteasers to do one thing: to start a safe conversation that reveals how smart candidates are."

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