Apply: What do you use to impress Gates?

On Microsoft's official website, "We look forward to the originality and pioneering talents to join the team. Our interview procedures are also specially designed to attract such talents. "Sounds simple. However, countless Harvard doctors and MIT experts who have been rejected by Microsoft will tell you how many "BT" Microsoft interview questions are ". These questions, known as "Demon questions", are all-encompassing.

How high is the IQ and logic thinking required by the examinee to impress Bill □gates and join his luxury office building?

Recently, American writer William pound wrote a new book "how to move Mount Fuji -- Microsoft's interview challenge", opening the true face of "Microsoft's problem.

Smart and useless

Microsoft's recruitment mailbox receives 12 thousand resumes each month. If printed on A4 paper, the heap will be higher than Yao Ming.

However, Microsoft's HR staff are not worried about working overtime. They have a "secret weapon" that is more efficient than human screening -- computer checks for search. Each electronic resume sent to Microsoft by specification will be searched for keywords by specific programs and then input into the database. The computer "thinks" there is a promising resume, and HR gives the applicant a chance to answer by phone.

Two rounds of filtered "winners" receive a ticket to Microsoft headquarters in Raymond, WA. Pack your mind and prepare to accept the interview with the interviewer who is "eye-catching" for a long and difficult "marathon" all day!

"Why do the two ends of the beer can be made into a concave design? "

"How do you make M & Ms chocolate? "

"What is the total weight of all college students in Chicago? "

When I hear these questions, I frown. They are the most typical and minimal pediatric "one-star question bank" for Microsoft interviews ". This kind of test is acceptable, not to mention Microsoft. Other computer companies in Silicon Valley will not "accept" you.

In fact, as early as 20 years ago, when Microsoft had not yet started the competition, and Silicon Valley was still a hero, it began to use these "nonsense" Questions for recruitment. Due to the rapid changes and innovation in the computer industry, many companies have found that the IQ test applicant is far from enough. High-score IQ employees often have a smart head and can't do it.

As a result, the bosses began to look for recruitment questions that could examine "Comprehensive Solution capabilities", and "reading" the applicant's logical thinking ability, imagination, and problem-solving ability "indexes ". This is the ancestor of the strange question.

Design bathroom for Bill

Nowadays, with the help of Microsoft, this type of questions is getting increasingly cold.

Let's take a look at Bill Gates's favorite question recently -- Design a bathroom for him.

Is it really whimsical? Can you just answer? If you think so, you cannot pass the Microsoft interview! By carefully analyzing the questions, the examinee can come up with two key questions-one is to consider the bathroom design that conforms to Bill □gates's identity, profession, and character; second, we should at least propose some design ideas that let Bill Gates appreciate but he never imagined. Otherwise, why did Bill □gates hire you to design a bathroom for him?

The rational design concept accepted by Microsoft was born.

Smart medicine kits that can be automatically locked: they are used to store home medicines so that children without adults can enter the bathroom and receive timely treatment in case of accidents.

Automatic notepad: Creates whimsy in the bathroom, but because of Wet hands, PDA cannot be used. Maybe Bill □gates needs a voice recognition device. When he says Code such as "Bill's memo", the device can record the information and automatically send the information to the email address, for easy access.

An asymmetric mirror: a video screen is installed on the back of the mirror, and the screen is connected to four hidden cameras. In this way, standing in front of the mirror, you can easily see your back and side images, wear clothes, cut your hair or squeeze out the acne on the back is much more convenient.

"The driving force in the face of uncertainty" rather than "Imagination" is the true purpose of Microsoft to design this question.

Incorrect score

Even more maddening: Sometimes, even if the examinee gives the correct answer to the question, it still cannot score.

For example, "how many points are there on the earth: First you walk one kilometer south, then one kilometer east, then one kilometer north, then you return to your starting point. "

First of all, do you think this is not a square with an edge missing? It's impossible to go back to the starting point!

Then, I quickly thought of the special "pole" location-starting from the northern point, and turning it all south. As a result, we start from the northern point and walk one kilometer in three directions to return to the extreme. So you are glad that you have found the answer, and it is the only answer. Because such a thing cannot happen on the south pole, the South Pole can no longer go south.

The examiner gave me a blank face. He gave me a batch of "Tang Tuan" in your answer sheet. You and your friends who answered "no such question" stood in the same camp called "elimination.

The answer lies in the South Pole.

Suppose you are standing at the South Pole more than a kilometer away to the South Pole. After one kilometer to the south, you have not reached the South Pole, but it is very close. So you continue to the east, because it is too close to the South Pole, you find that the route continues to the east to form a very South Center, and the Equator parallel circle, its perimeter is just one kilometer. In this way, you return to the starting point of the circle. After one kilometer to the north, you return to the origin. In this way, the number of answer points has increased to countless.

Are you finished? No, you can add some points. For example, the circumference of the circle is exactly 1/2 km, 1/4 km, 1/8 km ......

Only those who answer the following two types of answers are eligible to be left behind by Microsoft.