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5. Are you comfortable at voicing your ideas in meetings?
Exercise 354. Read and discuss the article.
Surprising Facts About Working At Google – 2020: Google is famous for
the quirky interview questions it asks its would-be employees. Even interns are
not spared of these strange questions. They have been asked to estimate the
number of tennis balls they think can fit into an airplane.
Prospective googlers are asked more difficult but equally strange questions like
how many books are published in the US annually, the number of haircuts
people get in the US every year, how they would design an ATM for elderly
people and how they would solve homelessness in San Francisco if they have
the powers to.
Google understands its bizarre interview questions are often difficult and has
gone on to ban some of them. This includes logical questions like why manhole
covers are round to weird ones like how many piano tuners are alive, how many
vacuums are made in the US every year and the number of golf balls that will
fill a school bus.
Exercise 355. Watch the video 3.3 and answer the questions. Read and
retell the script of the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVynXagaYVw
- Oh, why'd you want to be in television?
- Well, I've realized that I've become deeply committed (глубоко
привержена) to communicating to the public, see up to the moment
(дождаться момента) and in-depth (глубокие) news both political and
ecological.
- What do you think of the el nino phenomenon?
- Um, it's blip (вспышка). I think basically latin music is on its way out
(скоро не будет актуальна).
- So, why do you want to work in television?
- Because I'm passionately committed to communicating with children.
They are the future.
- Do you have any children of your own?
- Oh, Christ, no. Sorry.
- So why do you want to work in television?
- I've got to leave my current job because I've shagged (переспала) my
boss.
- Fair enough (довольно честно), start on Monday. We'll see how we go.
Oh, and uh incidentally at Sit Up Britain no one ever gets sacked
(увольняют) for shagging the boss. That's a matter of principle (это дело
принципа).

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