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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 31 2018, @06:12PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 31 2018, @06:12PM (#780328)

    Look at it from someones PoV that is trying to hire someone.

    Lets say you have 1 open position. You get 1000 resumes (yes it can be that bad). One thing you know at least 999 of those have to go away.

    So you sort at first on keywords. That gets you down to a specific amount. OK lets say you have 30 now. Well at least 29 of those need to go away.

    You call them up and screen them a bit and chat them up. OK now you are down to 5. At least 4 of those need to go away.

    You bring all 5 in and chat them up. Quiz them a bit. Make sure they are not total tools. Maybe you put them through the same tests you had to go through.

    Now pick one of those 5. Your boss wants that position filled yesterday. Oh and you need to pick 'the best one'. So you use testing along the way. Oh and if you pick a total tool you will get blamed for it.

    That is how we ended up with this mess.

  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday December 31 2018, @10:55PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Monday December 31 2018, @10:55PM (#780418) Journal

    "That is how we ended up with this mess."

    Finally, someone admits Windows is a mess!
    :)

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