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One Outnumbered at the Googleplex What It Takes to Get Hired at a Hyperselective Company Jim was sitting in the lobby of Google’s Building 44, Mountain View, California, surrounded by half a dozen others in various states of stupor. All were staring dumbly at the stupidest, most addictive TV show ever. It is Google’s live search board, the ever- scrolling list of the search terms people are Googling at this very instant. Watching the board is like picking the lock to the world’s diary, then wishing you hadn’t. For one moment, the private desires and anxieties of someone in New Orleans or Hyderabad or Edinburgh are broadcast to a select audience of voyeurs in Google lobbies — most of them twenty- and thirty-year-olds awaiting a job interview. giant-print Bibles overseeding Tales of Phantasia world’s largest glacier JavaScript man makeup purpose of education Russian laws relating to archery Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? Jim knew the odds were stacked against him. Google was receiving a million job applications a year. It was estimated that only about 1 in 130 applications resulted in a job. By comparison, about 1 in 14 students applying to Harvard University gets accepted. As at Harvard, Google employees must overcome some tall hurdles. Jim’s first interviewer was late and sweaty: he had biked to work. He started with some polite questions about Jim’s work his- tory. Jim eagerly explained his short career. The interviewer didn’t look at him. He was tapping away at his laptop, taking notes. “The next question I’m going to ask,” he said, “is a little unusual. ? You are shrunk to the height of a penny and thrown into a blender. Your mass is red