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Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Company Selects the Most Creative Thinkers

by William Poundstone (Author) (edit contributors)

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Microsoft's interview process is a notoriously grueling sequence of brain-busting questions that separate the most creative thinkers from the merely brilliant. So effective is their technique that other leading corporations--from the high-tech industry to consulting and financial... read more

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In August 1957 William Shockley was recruiting staff for his Palo Alto, California, start-up, Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory.

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1. The Impossible Question
2. The Termans and Silicon Valley
3. Bill Gates and the Culture of Puzzles
4. The Microsoft Interview Puzzles
5. Embracing Cluelessness
6. Wall Street and the Stress Interview
7. The Hardest Interview Puzzles
8. How to Outsmart the Puzzle Interview
9. How Innovative Companies Ought to Interview

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William Poundstone (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
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Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 0316919160
Page Count: 288

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Dewey: 658.3112

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Books › Business & Investing › Job Hunting & Careers › Interviewing
Books › Business & Investing › Industries & Professions › Human Resources & Personnel Management
Books › Business & Investing › Job Hunting & Careers › Guides
Books › Business & Investing › Job Hunting & Careers › Job Hunting
Books › Business & Investing › Management & Leadership

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