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posted by mrpg on Monday December 31 2018, @09:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the arcane dept.

Microsoft drops brain teasers from employee interview process

The interview process for Silicon Valley developer jobs has always had a reputation of being an arcane trial by fire exercise designed to weed down thousands of applicants to just the selected few antisocial geniuses.

Microsoft has however been making an effort to improve their hiring process to make it more useful and inclusive, and in a blog post John Montgomery, partner director of program management at Microsoft, explained the changes Microsoft has made to the process, which has meant cutting out such as questions as how many golf balls will fit into a 747.

Rethinking how we interview in Microsoft's Developer Division.

Also at Business Insider.


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by MostCynical on Monday December 31 2018, @10:16AM

    by MostCynical (2589) on Monday December 31 2018, @10:16AM (#780208) Journal

    selected few antisocial geniusesmasochistic wannabes

    FTFY

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