How Would You Move Mount Fuji?: Microsoft’s Cult of the Puzzle — How the World’s Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers
Microsoft’s notoriously grueling interview process has been emulated by companies everywhere that seek to separate the most creative thinkers from the merely brilliant. HOW WOULD YOU MOVE MOUNT FUJI? reveals more than 35 of these challenging riddles and puzzles and, for the first time, shows how answers can be found through creative and effective analytical thinking.
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Very interesting.
I never used it for interview. But i find it very interesting to read anyways.
1 Stars Not Practical
This book does not give you any answers or even how to answer such questions. It is quite long winded and is more of a how to handle questions like this.
From a book that has the title, “how would you move mount fuji”, I expect to be given the answer to this question or at least one answer to such a question.
This is some guy rambling on about how to be smart, and the types of interview questions and how to deal with such an interview.
But no answers here at all, all I want to hear is how you’d answer such a question. Here’s a good example of an answer and use this technique to answer questions like these. NONE OF THIS KIND OF ADVISE IS HERE!
This is just some guy capitalizing on Microsoft interview questions and concepts. I was very disappointed.
5 Stars Great Strategies and Reminders for Interviewing
The book primarily centers around the approaches to solving puzzle questions that are posed during interviews. It provides a basis of understanding how the interviews work, how to best approach the problems and tips to ensuring that you’re not going to make a bad impression during the interview.
4 Stars Fun problems
This book is aimed at programmers who are on the job market and just might wind up in one of those famous interviews in which an obscure logic puzzle is used to separate the wheat from the chaff. Are any of the puzzles described in this book going to get you a job these days? Probably not, but reading about the origins of Microsoft’s hiring practices in the ’90s is enjoyable, and the appendix of the book contains a sizable collection of these famous puzzles.
If you’re interested in more challenging puzzles, try your hand at Puzzles for Programmers and Pros.
1 Stars microsoft hypocracy
Dont you like how Microsoft has a gruleing intervew process to screen out “the merely brilliant”, then they go to Congress to demand more H1-B visa because they cant find any qualified candidates in the U.S.? I think a “merely brilliant” American is qualified, though would not work for H1-B slave labor wages.
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