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Google以工作面试过程而闻名，其中包括提出没有答案的开放式问题。当然，诸如“帝国大厦重多少？”等疑问的目的是不是要得到正确的答案。这是通过将问题分解成可管理的块来证明逻辑思维过程。
Google并不是唯一一家想要雇用可以以有组织的方式解决障碍的人的公司。大多数寻找工程师的公司都需要逻辑问题解决者。但是，在工程访谈中的通常方法是提出实际上有答案的问题。如果您没有完全准备好，那么获得它们可能会很痛苦。我们当中那些寻找工程工作的人一两次通常都有有关面试问题的战争故事。
Perhaps most nerve wracking are the interviews you have fresh out of engineering school when you realize there is a lot about engineering you still don’t know. With all the recent hand-wringing in the media about a dearth of engineering graduates, I got curious as to how young engineers fare these days when they bump up against interview questions. So I spoke with Dave Hein, VP of engineering at Nexen Group in Minnesota, a company that periodically hires mechanical engineers to design the motion control and power transmission components Nexen makes.
海因说，潜在的ME不必担心在Nexen的初次采访中展示技术技能。这仅适用于第二轮进入第二轮的候选人。“在第二轮中，我们提出了三个结构化的问题，因此，如果您了解适用于Nexen技术的基本工程原则，则应该能够回答它们。通常，第一个问题是线性运动问题。第二个覆盖旋转运动。第三个是基本气动。”
And how do the kids make out? “Probably 70% get only one problem right. Perhaps 15 to 20% get zero correct. I believe we’ve had only two people get all three right. And they are not hard questions,” he said. “Most people don’t account for gravity in the linear question. They neglect to factor in that the mass is moving vertically. In the rotational question, we find that few people really understand inertia.”
但是，您不必为了被雇用而吓到。海因说，测验结果只是整体访谈过程的一小部分，这主要涉及与工程师的讨论，候选人最终可能会与之合作。
Prospective employees who get through the second round come back for a final interview. This one is with a couple of key stakeholders and may involve a multiple-choice quiz. “This second quiz is more oriented toward engineers who have been working in the field for a few years. We might ask about geometric tolerencing symbols, about whether a particular grade of steel can be heat treated, or about plating processes that prevent corrosion,” he said.
As at Google, the upshot of Nexen’s interviewing process is to see what kind of intellectual horsepower prospective hires bring with them. “We want their thinking process to be correct even if their answers are wrong,” said Hein. All in all, Google’s off-beat interview style seems to work for Google; and Nexen’s more traditional approach seems to work for engineering companies like Nexen.
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