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How Would You Move Mount Fuji
by Poundstone, William
- Used
- Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0316005304
- ISBN 13
- 9780316005302
- Seller
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Tokyo, Japan
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About This Item
Hachette Book Group USA, 2007. Very Good. A tight clean softcover,no markings throughout, Not an ex-lib edition: Anyone who's interviewed for a job at Microsoft is intimately familiar with questions like the one in this book's title. They've probably also pondered such problems as why are manhole covers round? how do they make M&Ms? what does all the ice in a hockey rink weigh? how many piano tuners are there in the world? Questions like these, which test problem-solving abilities, not specific competencies, are de rigueur at job interviews at Microsoft, other tech firms and on Wall Street. In this hybrid book-it's at once a study of corporate hiring, an assessment of IQ testing's value, a history of interviewing and a puzzle book-science writer Poundstone (Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos) explains the thinking behind this kind of interviewing. In straightforward prose, Poundstone describes the roots of logic questions in interviews (the approach appears to have had its modern beginnings at Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in 1957), drawing on the history of IQ testing in hiring interviews, psychological studies and interviews with Microsoft ex-interviewers and interviewees, makes a strong case for eliminating standard questions like "What are your strengths and weaknesses?" and replacing them with logic puzzles. Almost half of the book is devoted to an "answer" section, where Poundstone gives possible solutions to the brainteasers.
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- Seller
- Infinity Books Japan
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- Seller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000025896
- Title
- How Would You Move Mount Fuji
- Author
- Poundstone, William
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0316005304
- ISBN 13
- 9780316005302
- Publisher
- Hachette Book Group USA
- Date Published
- 2007
- Bookseller catalogs
- Business / General;
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