How Would You Move Mount Fuji?: Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle

by William Poundstone

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Microsoft's interview process is a notoriously gruelling 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 services - are modelling their own hiring practices on Bill Gates' unique approach. HOW WOULD YOU MOVE MOUNT FUJI? reveals for the first time more than 35 of Microsoft's puzzles and riddles, such as: * Why does a mirror reverse right and left but not up and down? * If you could eliminate one U.S. state, which would it be? * How many piano tuners are there in the world? And for the first time, this book supplies answers and approaches using creative analytical thinking that works. Anyone in business, and everyone who wants to be, will find this book a valuable new approach to hiring, identifying talent in an organization, and getting the job of a lifetime.
  • ISBN10 0316778494
  • ISBN13 9780316778497
  • Publish Date 2 April 2004 (first published 1 January 2003)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 2 June 2017
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Little, Brown & Company
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 288
  • Language English