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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 Uncle_Al on Monday December 31 2018, @07:45PM

    by Uncle_Al (1108) on Monday December 31 2018, @07:45PM (#780360)

    Microsoft had a campus on the same side of 101 and Shoreline as Google for decades.
    It was torn down and is being rebuilt (I'm assuming they're moving back), they moved to the buildings
    near 237 and 101 and have a huge sign on the building there.

    The La Avenida campus held Web TV, XBox, and other developers and was started as the
    place where MSFT Mac development was done.

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