"Having read stories on the web about how some tech companies (cough, Google, cough) sometimes ask silly interview questions like "Why is a manhole round?," Tony asked his HR coach if he would have to answer a question like that."

Microsoft is the company that is/was known for asking this questions. Google is known for asking you real stuff such as explain how a linker works.

Clicking on the photos at the end brings you to "My nightmare interviewing for Google"

After reading this I wondered how much Microsoft paid for this ad. It is laid on so thick....

> If you flunk an interview, you don't move onto the next interviewer. If you fail, the interviewer comes back and says, "Ah, well, the guy you are supposed to meet with is in a meeting. He's key to the interview, so we're going to send you home and have you come back another time."

What's the point of that? Why they don't say it straight?