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I couldn't agree more with you. The applicant did the right thing in reading up on the company, but just didn't have the skills. For example, she knew how many

I couldn't agree more with you. The applicant did the right thing in reading up on the company, but just didn't have the skills. For example, she knew how many ad placements GMail had, but it took her a lot of tries before she answered the question about how much Google makes from Gmail ads, and surely for the position she was applying for, the ability to make an educated guess (backed up with figures) at these things would be vital?

sethg 17y ago
Her assumption that one out of four GMail ads gets clicked on seems wildly off-base; I thought that these days, a click-through rate of one percent is considered a smashing success. But of course if you know that every GMail page has four ads, and you assume that one quarter of the ads gets clicked on, the math for the rest of the problem gets a lot easier.