How Would You Move Mount Fuji?
Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest
Company Selects the Most Creative Thinkers by William Poundstone
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Book Description
Microsoft's interview process is a notoriously 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.
Mount Fuji is one of the best nonfiction books I've read in a
long while. If epod would read it, I think he'd agree. The book
is *NOT* some simplistic cheatsheet. It's a serious, nuanced, critical
look at employee evaluations.
Needless to say, one cardinal theme is that you don't ace these
interviews by memorizing right answers. It's all about showing the
interviewer how you approach a problem. Unless you do that, you're
dead.
With some questions, it's good to come up with a unique answer
the interviewer hasn't heard . . . It's also interesting to learn
of the backstage voting on candidates, which is hilarious and scary.
I learned a lot from this book, and unlike most books of its kind,
it's written in a style that makes it fun to read. A reader from
Austin, TX
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