Discusses the puzzle questions asked by Microsoft and other Fortune 500 companies of potential employees.
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For the first time, William Poundstone reveals the toughest questions used at Microsoft and other Fortune 500 companies - and supplies the answers. He traces the rise and controversial fall of employer-mandated IQ tests, the peculiar obsessions of Bill Gates (who plays jigsaw puzzles as a competitive sport), the sadistic mind games of Wall Street (which reportedly led one job seeker to smash a forty-third-story window), and the bizarre excesses of today's hiring managers (who may start off an interview with a box of Legos or a game of virtual Russian roulette).
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