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.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Boston : Little, Brown, 2003.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 276 p. : ill. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 0316919160 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HF 5549.5.I6 P68 2003
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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