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William PoundstonePublication Details
Book1st edLittle, Brown2003Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HF5549.5.I6 P68 2003 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Microsoft’s interview process is a notoriously grueling sequence of brain-busting questions that separate the most creative thinkers from the merely brilliant. reveals for the first time more than 35 of Microsoft’s puzzles and riddles, such as: n Why does a mirror reverse right and left but not up and down? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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- "For the first time, William Poundstone reveals the toughest questions used at Microsoft and other Fortune 500 companies - and supplies the answers. He traces the rise and controversial fall of employer-mandated IQ tests, the peculiar obsessions of Bill Gates (who plays jigsaw puzzles as a competitive sport), the sadistic mind games of Wall Street (which reportedly led one job seeker to smash a forty-third-story window), and the bizarre excesses of today’s hiring managers (who may start off an interview with a box of Legos or a game of virtual Russian roulette)." "Managers seeking the most talented employees will learn to incorporate puzzle interviews in their search for the top candidates. Job seekers will discover how to tackle even the most brain-busting questions and gain the advantage that could win the job of a lifetime."- -BOOK JACKET
Contents
- 1. The Impossible Question
- 2. The Termans and Silicon Valley
- 3. Bill Gates and the Culture of Puzzles
- 4. The Microsoft Interview Puzzles
- 5. Embracing Cluelessness
- 6. Wall Street and the Stress Interview
- 7. The Hardest Interview Puzzles
- 8. How to Outsmart the Puzzle Interview
- 9. How Innovative Companies Ought to Interview
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- 0316919160
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