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Microsoft Drops Brain Teasers From Employee Interview Process

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

takyon writes:

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: 2) by Dr Spin on Monday December 31 2018, @01:47PM (3 children)

    by Dr Spin (5239) on Monday December 31 2018, @01:47PM (#780247)

    Surely the correct answer to this is "I Don't know" or "quite a lot!".

    Minor variations in the seat anchorage mechanism alone would cause significant uncertainty.

    "How hard do you force them in? or "with or without the crew?" " would be good answers too.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday December 31 2018, @02:24PM (2 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday December 31 2018, @02:24PM (#780258) Homepage Journal

    Nope. The correct answer is "none outside whatever paying passengers bring on or check'". Golf balls are non-paying weight.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 01 2019, @01:39AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 01 2019, @01:39AM (#780480)

      Nope. The correct answer is why the fuck is the user trying to fit golf balls into a 747?

      I've been asked how can the end user do a number of bizarre shit and the correct path has always been to start by understanding why the user felt they needed to do such a strange thing. Once you understand that, you can help them do what they need done in a non-insane way.

      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday January 01 2019, @03:25AM

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 01 2019, @03:25AM (#780516) Journal
        Protip: if the check clears, it's a non-insane way.