HOW WOULD YOU MOVE MOUNT FUJI?: Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle: How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers
William Poundstone, . . Little, Brown, $22.95 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-316-91916-6
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 (
Reviewed on: 04/07/2003
Genre: Nonfiction