I've had a number of interviews recently where they try to do gimmick non-technical questions, I guess to copy Google. Has anyone else faced this?

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🤔 what do you mean by “gimmick” questions?
Google’s non technical questions are used to assess your leadership, critical thinking ability, and communication skills.

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Could you give an example of a question you’d consider to be a “gimmick”?

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This is pretty common in product interviews. To me it’s a red flag (even if it’s Google doing it).

Depends what you mean by gimmick, but I’m assuming you don’t object to questions that are non-technical but perhaps there to understand your emotional intelligence, which is pretty important to most hiring managers. Are you a diva, are you incapable of human interaction? Some of the gimmicks are meant to get at that. It’s meant to see how you are at dealing with the unexpected, etc. Even technical people need to be able to live in the community

Unfortunately, it's the reality we live in. If Google does it, so will everyone else, no matter how bad or pointless of an idea it is.

Read the math & logic puzzles chapter of Cracking the Coding Interview and do the problems at the end.

Otherwise make reasonable assumptions up front and use them to get to an answer. It’s just to see your thought process.

Yes, a lot of startups Ive interviewed with are terrible at this.

We gave up gimmick questions a long time ago. I have seen our question banks...I don't remember seeing a single gimmicky question

The copycats didn’t get the memo lol

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