Microsoft face questions open "challenge" is the secret weapon [Author: Anonymous Copy from: Site author Hits: 324 Update Time: 2004-4-6 article entry: Kang]
Microsoft has always regarded the company's interview problem as a secret, but there is no absolute secret in the world. "What can give you happiness?", "Do you think it is perfect or a speed?", "If Microsoft wants to invest $ 5 million according to your choice, what business do you choose?" This kind of ordinary problem I have fallen, now I only choose my brain, "circle" questions, creativity tests, etc., let us see Microsoft's interview secret. Microsoft's mental questions from which to logic is part of the popular lunch casual conversation in Microsoft No. 16 buffet restaurant. Microsoft's competitive spirit believes that "new" and "effective" problem is a very "cool" thing. Many Microsoft's puzzles have legendary colors. It is said that there is a sewer cover when Steve Ballmer and another Microsoft's senior official is jogging. I asked: "Why is the sewer cover is circular?" Another person launched a road: "Hey, This can be a problem with an interview. "This story may be true, however, almost certainly Ballmer is not the first person to propose the problem of the sewer cover. In fact, Microsoft's interview psychic issues have appeared on some intellectual exchanges or some websites with intellectual entitled main content. Microsoft is just given them "makeup". The problem is not using the balance, how do you say the weight of a jet plane? Why is the image in the mirror to reverse instead of upside down? Why do you have hot water in the hotel? How is M & M chocolate? You are thrown up on the boat, and the level will rise or decline? How many piano tunners in the world? How much gas station is there in the United States? How many Mississippi River water flows through New Orleans every hour? What is the ice in a hockey court? If you can move any of the 50 states in the United States, which one will you move? How many points have this point on the earth: 10 kilometers from the south, take 1 km towards the east, and go to the north, can you return to the original starting point? How many times is the pointer of the middle clock table? Mike and Todd have a total of $ 21. Mike's money is 20 dollars, how much is MA? There is no score in your answer. Generally speaking, how many times will Manhattan's phone book to find the name you want to find? How would you design Bill Gates's bathroom? How do you design a microwave oven controlled by a computer? You make workers for 7 days for you, and the return to workers is a gold bars. Gold bars are divided into seven segments, you must give them a gold bars at the end of each day, if you can break the gold bars twice, how do you pay for your workers? Please cut a box of cakes into 8 copies, giving 8 people, but there must be one in the cake box. Xiao Ming family has a bridge, and it is dark night, so there must be a lamp. Now Xiaoming Cross the bridge for 1 second, Xiao Ming's brother wants 3 seconds, Xiaoming's father wants 6 seconds, Xiao Ming's mother should take 8 seconds, Xiaoming's grandfather should take 12 seconds. Every time this bridge can pass two people, while the speed of the bridge is dependent on the bridge, and the lamp will go out for 30 seconds after igniting. Q: How do you cross bridge? A group of people are dancing, and each head is wearing a hat. There are only two black and white in the hat, and there is at least one black. Everyone can see the color of the other people, but they can't see yourself. The moderator first let everyone see what hats are wearing it on the head, then turn off the lights. If someone thinks that it is a black hat, I will play myself a slap. The first time turns the light, no sound. So I opened the lights, everyone will look at it again, and still sword when they turn off the lights. Or until the third turn, there was a sound of the slap in the light.
How many people wear a black hat? "Challenge" is the secret weapon Microsoft and many other companies have a "secret test weapon" in the interview. This secret weapon is often referred to as "challenges". One of my friends didn't pass Microsoft. After the interview, I got a dinner with him. He complained: "I hate the main examiner. He is a idiot. He is a basic knowledge of Xiao Nufu!" My friend was angry, because he felt the interview Is because this primary examiner is ignorant of the topic of the talked. What is the reason? The position he applied is a project manager. This is a position responsible for designing software rather than programming, so this position needs to do a lot of persuasive work. The project manager must have a strong logical thinking ability, but the programmer lacks social skills, which requires a special talent. To be a project manager, the unique ability you need is: persuading people accept facts that you think the right. And this is basically your daily work. You must be patient and friendly, this is the basic requirement of the project manager's quality to a person. The earliest version of "Challenge" appears in Stanford-Kikin IQ. The person testing may give the following topics: We all know that water can support the fish in the water, then answer this question: If we have a bucket only half a bucket of water, put the bucket in the balance, the water and buckets are just heavy 45 kg. Then put a 5 kg of fish into the bucket, what is the total weight? Most adults will say 45 plus 5 is 50 kg. The person who presided over this time may ask: "How will this be correct? You know that water will support the fish." Temmer wrote: "If the person being tested continuously changes the answer, then Say that I think the answer should be 50 kg but is not sure, then it is divided into zero. "Only in the use of logic to defend the correct answer for his own, it will defeat twice" challenge ", the answer will be considered correct of. These problems do not seem to be tested for intellectual class, but there is no doubt that companies that apply this "sophistication" have attached great importance to the results of this test. According to SpoSki, in Microsoft's situation: During the whole interview process, you guides the candidates to say some of the complete affirmation, no controversial correct answer. Then you said, "Wait a minute, wait a minute", and deliberately sing two minutes against him until they can fully prove the correctness of their answers. "The weak candidates will choose to give up. Such people will never be admitted. Good candidates will manage you through some approach. They will take a complete set of Dell Carnegie practices to convince you, they It may be said that 'Maybe I misunderstood you' this, but they always insist on their position. Such people, hire. "The public test of the no answer Microsoft is not happy to disclose the disclosure of the interview problem, but it is very helpless . As early as the beginning of the Internet, these test questions have been disclosed. In the early 1990s, ChrisSells was interviewed at the Developmentor. At the end of the interview, the founder of a company said: "Okay, you are hired. But ask you a Microsoft company to ask questions when interview - why the sewer lid is round?" Celz replied: "No problem, if you answer this question first, I will answer your question - Why is the firefighter's strap is red?" The company founded the dumb. This experience prompted Serbs to start collecting Microsoft's interview issues. In 1996, he created a website and started to post himself on the Internet. Kiranbondalapati, University of South Galifornia, participated in Microsoft's interview with several friends. Bond Lapati sorted out the problem and formed his own "Microsoft Interview".
