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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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Could I have a drug overdose?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday December 31 2018, @02:19PM (1 child)
What legitimate reason do you have to offer that they should be? They may not tell the whole story of fitness for a job but they absolutely do tell part of it for coding jobs.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 31 2018, @02:56PM
It would probably depend on whether the test is redundant due to other interview requirements and assessments. I assume that a certain level of intelligence is needed.
The tests aren't illegal. I'm pretty sure that I was misremembering the details of this case:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co. [wikipedia.org]