? "Challenge" is a secret weapon. Microsoft is not afraid of public interviews.

Microsoft has always regarded the company interview as a secret, but there is no absolute secret in the world. "What can make you happy?" "Do you think perfection or speed is important?" If Microsoft were to invest $5 million according to your choice, what business would you choose? I don't need to elaborate on this common problem here. Now we only choose brain teasers, "trap" questions, creativity tests and so on. Let's take a look at Microsoft's interview tips. ?

? Where does the Microsoft problem come from?

? The topic of logic is a part of the popular lunch conversation in the cafeteria of Microsoft Building 16. Microsoft's competitive spirit thinks it's cool to ask "new" and "effective" questions.

? Many problems of Microsoft are legendary. It is said that steve ballmer and another senior Microsoft official once saw a sewer cover while jogging. They casually asked, "Why is the sewer cover round?" ? Another person had a brainwave and said, "Well, this is a good interview question. This story may be true, but it is almost certain that Ballmer is not the first person to raise the issue of manhole covers. In fact, Microsoft's interview puzzles have appeared in some puzzle compilation books or some websites with puzzles as the main content, and Microsoft just "made them up".

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? ? How can you weigh a jet plane without using a balance?

? ? Why is the image in the mirror upside down instead of upside down?

? ? Why does hot water come out as soon as the hotel turns on the hot water tap?

? ? How is M&M chocolate made?

? ? When you are on a boat and throw a box up, will the water level rise or fall?

? ? How many Piano tuner are there in the world?

? ? How many gas stations are there in America?

? ? How many Mississippi rivers flow through New Orleans every hour?

? ? How heavy is the ice in the hockey field?

? ? If you could move any of the 50 states in the United States, which one would you move?

? ? How many such points are there on the earth: south 1km, east 1km, north 1km. Can we go back to the original starting point?

? ? How many times do the hands of a clock overlap in a day?

? ? Mike and Todd each have 265,438+0. Mike is 20 dollars more than Todd. How much money does everyone have? Your answer can't be scored.

? ? Generally speaking, how many times do you have to look through Manhattan's phone book to find the name you are looking for?

? ? How would you design Bill Gates' bathroom?

? ? How to design a computer-controlled microwave oven? ?

? "Challenge" is a secret weapon.

? Many companies such as Microsoft have a "secret test weapon" in the interview. This secret weapon is often called "challenge". A friend of mine failed in an interview with Microsoft, and I had dinner with him after the interview. He complained, "I hate that examiner. He is an idiot. He doesn't even know the basics of piano axioms! My friend was very angry about it because he thought the interview was messed up because the examiner knew nothing about the topic he was talking about.

? What is the result? The position he applied for is a project manager, responsible for designing software instead of programming, so this position needs a lot of persuasion work. The project manager needs a special talent to deal with a group of programmers with strong logical thinking ability but insufficient social skills. To be a project manager, you need a unique ability: persuading people to accept what you think is right. And this is basically your daily work. You must be patient and friendly, which is the basic requirement for a person's quality in the position of project manager.

? The earliest version of "Challenge" appeared in spoken Stanford-Binet.Alfred. Alfred IQ test. Testers may ask the following questions:

? ? As we all know, water can lift fish in water, so please answer this question: if we have a bucket with only half a bucket of water and put it on the balance, the weight of water and bucket is just 45 kilograms. Then put a 5 kg fish in the bucket. What is the total weight now?

? Most adults will say that 45 plus 5 is 50 kilograms. The person in charge of the test may ask at this time: "How can this be correct? You know water can hold fish. Terman once wrote: "If the subject keeps changing the answer and says, I think the answer should be 50 kilograms but I'm not sure, then the score is zero. Only when the tried logic defends its correct answer and defeats the "challenge" twice in a row will the answer be considered correct.

? These questions don't seem to test things like intelligence, but there is no doubt that companies that apply this "sophistry" test attach great importance to the results of this test. Sposky believes that in the case of Microsoft, during the whole interview, you guide the candidates to say some absolutely certain and indisputable correct answers. Then you say "wait a minute, wait a minute", and then deliberately disagree with him for two minutes until they can fully prove their answers are correct.

? "Cowardly candidates will choose to give up, and such people will never be admitted. A good candidate will try to convince you in some way. They will use a whole set of DaleCarnegie methods to convince you. They may say things like "Maybe I misunderstood you", but they always stand their ground. Such people are employed. 」

? Open-ended questions without answers

? Although Microsoft is unwilling to disclose interview questions, it is also very helpless. As early as the birth of the Internet, these problems have been made public.

? In the early 1990s, ChrisSells was interviewed at DevelopMentor. At the end of the interview, the founder of a company said, "Well, you are hired. But let me ask you another question that Microsoft often asks in interviews-why is the sewer cover round? 」

? Cyrus replied, "No problem. You answer this question first, and I'll answer your question-why is the fireman's sling red? " ? 」

? The founder of this company was speechless.

? This experience prompted sayles to start collecting interview questions from Microsoft. 1996, he created a website and began to post the test questions he had heard.

? Courant Bondalapati, a student from the University of Southern California, and several of his friends attended an interview with Microsoft. Bond Rapati sorted out the questions and set up his own "Microsoft interview question bank". There are other websites that offer similar services, such as "Microsoft Interview Questions" on 4guysfromRolla.com and "Technical Interview Questions" by MichaelPryor (these websites contain all kinds of questions, not just Microsoft interview questions).

? You may think that Microsoft is very angry that its company's interview questions have been made public, but this is not entirely the case. Both Bond Rapati and sayles have heard that people in Microsoft's human resources department will instruct employees to consult their websites for reference when they first serve as examiners.

? Of course, candidates can also use these websites to prepare for interviews, but neither sayles nor Bondrapati's websites provide answers to questions. Bond Rapati once received an urgent call from a friend of a friend. He was at the Marriott Hotel on the eve of an interview with Microsoft. In front of her, there are a lot of things printed by Bond Rapati's website, but none of the questions have a definite answer. She wants Bond Rapati to tell her.

? Sayles has received emails from many companies, and they also want to "recruit like Microsoft". So what's the problem? They also need to know the answers to the questions, and sayles' website omits all the answers. Cyrus said, "I always answer that if you don't know the answer, you shouldn't ask these questions in the interview." This often makes them angry. " (Mars)

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