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How would you move Mount Fuji? : Microsoft's cult of the puzzle : how the world's smartest companies select the most creative thinkers

Title
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.
Author
Poundstone, William.
Publication
Boston : Little, Brown, 2004, c2003.

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x, 276 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
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.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-262) and index.
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.
Call Number
JBD 04-727
ISBN
0316778494 (pbk.)
OCLC
54858628
Author
Poundstone, William.
Title
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.
Imprint
Boston : Little, Brown, 2004, c2003.
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-262) and index.
Research Call Number
JBD 04-727
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