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How Would You Move Mount Fuji?: Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle -- How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers
	Author: William Poundstone Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Category: Book List Price: ~~$14.99~~ Buy New: $10.19 You Save: $4.80 (32%) Rating: 29 reviews Sales Rank: 43167 Media: Paperback Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 288 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6 Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.9 ISBN: 0316778494 Dewey Decimal Number: 658.3112 EAN: 9780316778497 Publication Date: April 2, 2004 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours

Editorial Reviews: Product Description Microsoft's notoriously grueling interview process has been emulated by companies everywhere that seek to separate the most creative thinkers from the merely brilliant. HOW WOULD YOU MOVE MOUNT FUJI? reveals more than 35 of these challenging riddles and puzzles and, for the first time, shows how answers can be found through creative and effective analytical thinking.

Customer Reviews: Read 24 more reviews... I gave a lecture about this book at GE! January 5, 2009 A week before his senseless bicycling death in June 2004 at the hands of a speeding 18-year old motorist, a good friend and colleague of mine from GE Global Research showed me a book that he claimed I would love. We spent the evening competing over the great variety of "interview puzzles" that the book offers, and he was right. Dave had a Ph.D. in Physics from Oxford and I earned mine in Chemistry from the University of British Columbia, and we were both eager to learn if Microsoft would hire us, had we ever knocked on its door. I was intrigued by the rather inhumane but clever hiring methodology that, according to Mr. Poundstone, Microsoft applies, which led me to give a lecture about the book in Dave's honor at GE's Scientific American Seminar Series two months later (I don't recall how I justified the book's connection to Scientific American...). In the process, I learned what approximate fraction of GE's R&D staff would stand to "pass the test" at Microsoft, which surprised me... If you love to think in a variety of dimensions, get this book. In spite of its flaws, which have been well documented by the other reviewers, it's a gem, as is almost every book produced by Mr. Poundstone's ample and wide-ranging intellect. Not good for interviewing September 29, 2008 This book is definitely entertaining, interesting, and well-researched. However, the premise is a little misleading. I bought this as I was finishing grad school and interviewing with tech companies. It really did not help at all. Maybe companies used to use these logic puzzles, but regardless, I can tell you for sure they don't anymore. I interviewed with companies including Google, Apple, Amazon, and Adobe, and none of them asked me any logic puzzles. I don't think it's common practice anymore. Don't buy this if you're looking to get ahead for tech interviews. Your time would be better spent studying programming problems. Should have read it twice.... June 3, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful This books is filled with all those puzzle questions that used to come up at interviews at Microsoft and Google... I interviewed at both companies none of these came up, in fact thay are now frowned upon...as fate would have it I interviewd at a third company and they asked the one about the boat and the suitcase, which I couldn't remember.. aaaaarrrg Bill It's not about finding a job, but having an open mind. April 6, 2008 1 out of 1 found this review helpful Too simple to think of this as getting a job at Microsoft of job interviews in general. It's about having an open mind. Clearly the "problems" can distinguish between those who say "I can't do it" and give up and those who find every problem, even the impossible, an opportunity to succeed, and are not crushed be failure. And the problems are fun. Good for interview backup June 5, 2007 2 out of 2 found this review helpful This was a pretty fun read. The book goes over the origins of brainteaser/puzzle interviews, how they are/should be used, and has a lot of well explained examples. For my purposes of going over brainteasers that I might run into in investment banking interviews, the book was pretty handy because the few brainteasers I did get, I had read about before. If you are trying to do the same thing for other types of interviews (with trading companies or something more quantitative) then the book isn't as good in those areas, because the questions are more probability/stat based. Overall, very enjoyable and well-written.