Why You’re Not Hiring the Best and the Brightest

Re:Why You’re Not Hiring the Best and the Brightest by zerr on Friday April 04, 2014 @01:55AM (#7529563)

Interesting. Could you please clarify if your interviewed when Skype was already acquired by Microsoft?

I wander if Skype does similar thing now, i.e. maybe they preserved some autonomy and did not adopt general MS style puzzle interviews.

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Re:Why You’re Not Hiring the Best and the Brightest by jgh on Friday April 04, 2014 @11:00AM (#7531776)

This was in 2010 IIRC, so I guess it was before the Microsoft acquisition

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Re:Why You’re Not Hiring the Best and the Brightest by JayBlanton on Friday April 04, 2014 @02:43AM (#7529720)

MS employee here. AFAIK puzzles have not been used in a long time.

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Re:Why You’re Not Hiring the Best and the Brightest by zerr on Friday April 04, 2014 @11:48AM (#7532175)

I meant CS puzzles (like in programming olympiads), which are still widely used I believe.

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