Procrastination
I just wasted an hour solving this stupid puzzle: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/21/google-is-searching-for-beautiful-minds-but-so-far-no-m-i-t-students-have-broken-its-code/
I say stupid, because once you discover the answer you’re like, why did I just waste my time solving this? It’s not a cool puzzle that you might have to write a neat algorithm to decipher, it’s just one of those “ah-ha!” type puzzles, which to me, don’t really tell you that much about a person if you were looking to hire them.
If you call the number they admit that they’re not even Google! I don’t particularly want a job either at Google or in Massachusetts, but now I’m annoyed that they lied to me. I’m still curious though, so I left a message and I’ll post info if they call me back. Probably not a good way to hire people by lying to them off the bat though.
