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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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(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Wednesday January 02 2019, @04:42AM
> The interview process for Silicon Valley developer jobs has always had a reputation of being an arcane trial by fire
I believe most tech companies dropped brain teasers from interviews a long time ago. When I interviewed, I never encountered any. I'm surprised Microsoft still had them, even considering that they're Microsoft.
For example, I see a source saying Google banned them in 2010 or so.
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/why-brainteasers-dont-belong-in-job-interviews [newyorker.com]
The "arcane trial by fire" part is probably mostly because most "developers" can't write code. It's like asking someone with no education to pass an electrician's exam, of course it's going to feel like an "arcane trial by fire".
https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/ [codinghorror.com]
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