How Would You Move Mount Fuji? by William Poundstone

Author:William Poundstone [POUNDSTONE, WILLIAM]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: BUS012000
ISBN: 9780759528024
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2003-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

At a lot of companies today, hiring is as centerless as the Internet. Microsoft-style peer interviewing is most often used in companies with flat organization structures (“pancakes,” not “pyramids”). This places a lot of responsibility on the shoulders of people who are not hiring experts.

In evaluating interview questions and practices, you should focus on what you hope to achieve. “You’re going in there with absolutely no information,” says Joel Spolsky. “You’re not going to get very much information because you don’t have very much time.”

The overriding goal has to be information you can use. Does the question, and the answers you are likely to get, tell you something that helps you make a hiring decision? Few interviewers bother to ask themselves this.

Some think that a good puzzle is a good interview question. This is not necessarily the case. Here are two examples, both used in job interviews.

[Link to Answer 52] Does the sun always rise in the east?

[Link to Answer 53] You’ve got six matchsticks. Arrange them so they form four equilateral triangles.

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