How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle--How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers
Sign in to keep track of books you’ve read and want to read.
For years, Microsoft and other high-tech companies have been posing riddles and logic puzzles like these in their notoriously grueling job interviews. Now "puzzle interviews" have become a hot new trend in hiring. From Wall Street to Silicon Valley, employers are using tough and tricky questions to gauge job candidates' intelligence, imagination, and problem-solving ability — qualities needed to survive in today's hypercompetitive global marketplace. 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 your interview with a box of Legos or a game of virtual Russian roulette). How Would You Move Mount Fuji? is an indispensable book for anyone in business. 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. And anyone who has ever dreamed of going up against the best minds in business may discover that these puzzles are simply a lot of fun. Why are beer cans tapered on the end, anyway?
Liked How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle--How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers? Here’s where I’d start.
These suit anyone who liked How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle--How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.
-
Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job Shares programming, computer science, business -
How to Make Big Money in Your Own Small Business: Unexpected Rules Every Small Business Owner Needs to Know Shares business, nonfiction, management -
Winning: The Answers: Confronting 74 of the Toughest Questions in Business Today Shares business, nonfiction, management -
How Google Works Shares business, nonfiction, management
“People who read How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle--How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers tend to reach for these next.”
“If you want more of the same (business about work), start with these.”
“If it was the management that hooked you, try one of these.”
“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”
- What I Wish Every Candidate Knew: 15 Minutes to a Better Interview
-
Hiring for Attitude: A Revolutionary Approach to Recruiting and Selecting People with Both Tremendous Skills and Superb Attitude
-
This Is How to Get Your Next Job: An Inside Look at What Employers Really Want
-
The Google Resume: How to Prepare for a Career and Land a Job at Apple, Microsoft, Google, or Any Top Tech Company