How would you move Mount Fuji? : Microsoft's cult of the puzzle : how the world's smartest companies select the most creative thinkers /
William Poundstone.
- 1st ed.
- Boston : Little, Brown, 2003.
- x, 276 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-262) and index.
The impossible question -- The Termans and Silicon Valley -- Bill Gates and the Culture of Puzzles -- The Microsoft interview puzzles -- Embracing cluelessness -- Wall Street and the stress interview -- The hardest interview puzzles -- How to outsmart the puzzle interview -- How innovative companies ought to interview.
Microsoft's interview process is a grueling sequence of brain-busting questions that separate the most creative thinkers from the merely brilliant. So effective is their technique that other leading corporations--from the high-tech industry to consulting and financial services--are modeling their own hiring practices on Bill Gates' unique approach. How would you move Mount Fuji? reveals for the first time more than 35 of Microsoft's puzzles and riddles.