Bill Gates' favorite question in recruitment.

According to The Times, when recruiting employees, Microsoft, a global software giant, comprehensively examines whether the candidates are agile and creative from the perspective of psychology. A newly published book reveals some "strange" questions that candidates must answer.

Microsoft has many recruitment problems.

Microsoft, the largest software company in the world, has developed its unique (and some people think it is eccentric) recruitment method. The company receives 6.5438+0.2 million resumes every month. Without human intervention, the computer will search carefully by keywords and then input them into the database. A promising resume will give the candidate a chance to talk to the interviewer, usually by phone. Finally, qualified candidates will be allowed to attend a full-day marathon interview at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

Microsoft's website reads: "We look forward to having original and pioneering wise men to join our team. Our interview process is also specially designed for recruiting such talents. " Generally speaking, recruiters will ask the so-called "Microsoft questions" one by one. This question is either a mathematical question-there is only one "correct" answer, or an open-ended question. In either case, the recruiter should be at least as interested in the way you answer the question as the question itself.

Microsoft recruits employees by asking difficult questions, which adds a charm to the "Big Mac" that once created the digital myth. Microsoft employees claim that the company treats everyone equally and impartially. What matters is your logical thinking ability, imagination and problem-solving ability.

Please design a bathroom for the gate.

The questions asked by Microsoft during the interview have formed their own unique style, and new tricks are constantly being made. This book only extracts some widely reprinted problems, at least on the website. Some people like to "collect" the problems raised by Microsoft during the interview and then make them public online. In addition, most of the questions asked by Microsoft are widely used by other companies. As the problem became more and more difficult, many other problems were added. Under the pressure of time, there are some extremely difficult questions that candidates can't answer immediately in a hurry. If someone really answers, it only shows that this person is superior. This extremely difficult question is:

Microsoft's most difficult interview question

How would you design a bathroom for Bill Gates?

There are two key points to answer this question. First of all, Bill Gates usually chooses the design he needs. Second, you should at least come up with some designs that Bill Gates likes but he never thought of. Otherwise, what's the point of Bill Gates hiring you to design his bathroom? )

I should remind you that in your proposal, you must let your imagination fly and give full play to it. Of course, it had better be practical. Bill Gates' bathtub is very distinctive.

An epiphany

Intelligent medicine cabinet or medicine cabinet. The bathroom should be equipped with an intelligent medicine box or medicine box cabinet that can be locked automatically for storing household medicines, so that children who are not accompanied by adults can get timely treatment in case of accidents.

Automatic notepad. Everyone in the bathroom has fantastic ideas. You can't use a personal digital assistant (PDA) when your hands are wet. All you need is speech recognition equipment. When you say a code like "Bill's Memo", the device can record what you say and automatically send it to your email so that you can get it at any time at work.

A mirror with an asymmetric relationship between an object and an image. This mirror is a video screen that hides the camera, showing your own image, but this image looks at you from the perspective of others, that is, your image seen by others. This will make it easier for you to cut your hair with scissors.

Microsoft FAQ

Here are some frequently asked questions from Microsoft.

1. How to measure the weight of a jet plane without using a weighing machine?

2. Why is the manhole in the sewer round instead of square?

You turn on the hot water tap in the hotel, and the hot water will flow out immediately. Why?

4. How many times do the hands of the clock overlap every day?

You have eight marbles. One of them has a "flaw", which is heavier than other marbles. If you are given a balance, how do you pick out which marble is "defective" after two measurements?

6. You have two barrels, the capacity is 3 liters and 5 liters respectively, and there is a lot of water at the same time. How to accurately measure 4 liters of water?

7. You have three colors of fudge in a bucket, which are red, green and blue. Close your eyes, reach into the bucket and take out two pieces of fudge of the same color. If you want to make sure to take out two candies of the same color, how many candies must you take out of the bucket?

8.4 People must cross a suspension bridge at night. Many planks for paving the bridge are missing, and the suspension bridge can only bear the weight of two people at a time. More than two people, the bridge will collapse. Four people must use flashlights for lighting. Otherwise, they will definitely fall on the air and die. There is only one flashlight. Four people cross the bridge at different speeds. Adam can pass in a minute; Larry finished the task in two minutes; Edgar took 5 minutes, and the slowest Bono took the longest time, about 10 minutes. This bridge can only support 17 minutes, and it will collapse after 17 minutes. How can four people cross the bridge like this?