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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 Barenflimski on Monday December 31 2018, @09:10PM (2 children)

    by Barenflimski (6836) on Monday December 31 2018, @09:10PM (#780387)

    I was once asked the following, for a fairly low level position. They did not have a whole lot of applicants.

    Please answer the following, these are not technical questions.
    Red or Blue?
    Android or Iphone?
    Elephants or Pigs?

    I would never ask these questions in an interview, and honestly don't know how they could help answer anyone's questions about a human being or why this would be important to a specific tech job.

    Why would someone ask these questions?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 31 2018, @09:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 31 2018, @09:42PM (#780393)

    How could they miss the critical ones such as "Boxers or Briefs?", or perhaps the ultimate: "Emacs or VI?"

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 01 2019, @10:53PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 01 2019, @10:53PM (#780768)

    Kirk or Piccard?