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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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Everything you know is wrong!
(Score: 2) by legont on Monday December 31 2018, @05:46PM
True.
Another point - one has to satisfy customer requirements; even those that have nothing to do with the product itself. If clients want the project partially done by lesbian Eskimo of challenging abilities, let them have it. Microsoft's advantage is that it can afford such requirements, while a smaller shop might not. That's why diversity is supported by big business regardless of costs.
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