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Title: The Unofficial Guide to Getting a Job at Microsoft by Rebecca Smith ISBN: 0-07-135260-0 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Pub. Date: 29 February, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Inaccurate and not helpful
Comment: Take it from someone on the inside, this book is not going to help you. I picked up the book while killing time at a bookstore and was amazed at the bad advice. Some of the sample questions were outright illegal ("Do you own a computer?" -- If I asked this, the HR department would have a fit!), while others were industry standard ("Tell me about a time when you had a problem in a group and how you solved it.")
You can get similar information online for free, and it will probably be better quality.
Rating: 1
Summary: Don't waste your money
Comment: There is nothing in this book that you can't get from any free internet site on job search and interview help. I have interviewed microsoft and know of others who have interviewed Microsoft, some work there some don't. Nothing in the book helped my experience with MSFT and nothig will help anyone else either. If you buy this book you will be wasting your money. As far as the interview with Microsoft it can be said in one sentence. BE YOURSELF. If they like you they hire you if they don't they won't. It's mostley a beauty pagent and each set of interviewer will have his/her notion of who they want to hire. DON'T WAST YOUR MONEY ON THIS BOOK.
Rating: 4
Summary: Two BIG Reasons To Read This Book!
Comment: So many people are in awe of Microsoft (MS) that, on one level, this book fulfills the basic purpose of telling the reader what the rudiments are of getting a job there. Sure, if you're planning to apply for the job of personal assistant to Bill Gates or establish yourself as the imminent software guru who's going to develop the MS strategic thrust for 2005 -- then this book may be too basic. But, keeping in mind that MS employs lots and LOTS of people, the book is a true getting-started guide which can help someone honestly considering how to get a job at MS -- at multiple levels of the company. (Despite the "Unofficial" word in the book's title, Smith had to have had some critical sources who really KNOW how MS works).
Moreover, there's a second reason why this book clicks. So many people admire the company and list it on their most-favored list (and invest in it!), that here's a whole new way to look at the company. By reading about how the employment game works at MS, one can perhaps glean how it is that the company competes and performs. Which makes the book valuable even if you're planning to continue working in automotives or clothing sales.
For most people, Microsoft is now a monolith. Smith sought to unlock the basics of how MS hires people. In the main, she succeeds. (There's also a wealth of addresses and links for MS worldwide!)
Will everyone who reads this book and applies for a job at MS get hired there? Probably not. Will everyone who reads this book and applies for a job at MS have a better shot at getting employed? Yes.
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Title: How Would You Move Mount Fuji? Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Company Selects the Most Creative Thinkers by William Poundstone ISBN: 0316919160 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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