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Title: How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Company Selects the Most Creative Thinkers by William Poundstone ISBN: 0-316-91916-0 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.39 (18 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Entertaining and Anecdotal, but not super informative.
Comment: This book was entertaining because it contained great anecdotes and history about the puzzle-based interview.
Apart from that, however, I found it quite unoriginal. If you're interested in learning how to hire great people, go search the JoelOnSoftware website for interviewing tips. There's an essay there which is cited several times in this book.
If you're a puzzle enthusiast, you've probably heard many of the puzzles in this book. As the author mentions, there are plenty of online resources for this information.
This book devotes too much time to talking about msft and it seems like the author is locked in a love/hate relationship with that company. :)
Overall, this book was a collection of many sources of information (anecdotes about msft, recruiting tips from Joel, puzzles from the web) without adding much originality (except maybe the 'answers' section).
Rating: 5
Summary: awesome for people who love puzzles
Comment: A book introduces you to a whole set of new and intriguing questions and problem solving techinques.
Dont know how much it helps in the actual "Microsoft" interview but really gives an insight into the way the how few of the most creative people in the world at Microsoft think and solve problems.
Great fun to go thru the whole book and just buy it for question bank and proposed solutions.
Must buy for every computer programmer/software geek.
Rating: 3
Summary: Come again?
Comment: If Microsoft is hiring (as Poundstone claims) "the world's most creative thinkers," why are Microsoft's products so drearily deriviative? Of course, the point of Poundstone's book is not really to talk about Microsoft at all, except as an example of his central thesis on problem solving and hiring practices, which is well-done enough. That he would choose to throw yet another undeserved accolade at Bill, Steve and company makes him suspect at the outset. If you want a real life tale of Microsoft inventiveness, find a clip of Ballmer's "Monkeyboy" act on the web-now THAT'S typical Microsoft creativity!
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Title: Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job by John Mongan, Noah Suojanen ISBN: 0471383562 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 15 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Labyrinths of Reason : Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge by William Poundstone ISBN: 0385242719 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 December, 1989 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Prisoner's Dilemma by William Poundstone ISBN: 038541580X Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Big Secrets by William Poundstone ISBN: 0688048307 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 26 June, 1985 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: 101 Great Answers to the Toughest Interview Questions by Ron Fry, Ronald W. Fry ISBN: 156414464X Publisher: Career Press Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.99 |
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