These are soft skill's questions I met while I was interviewed by MS.
I think it is a good test for a tech lead's positions.
1. If MS give you 5M budget for developing. What will you do to contribute
MS most and why?
2. If your manager assigned you an job, you worked it for a while.
One day your manager's manager assign you another task and may affect
your current assignment. What will you do?
3. Why you want join MS?
Tell me what are the problems from your current job and colleagues.
Don't tell me you don't have any problem in your current job and colleague.
And, tell me the most serious ones.
4. I say, you are going to be hired. What do you see yourself in 1 year,
3 years, 5 years and 10 years after you are hired?
5. Name a website/service you like most. Then tell me how do you improve it.
6. If you are a team lead, how do you manage your team?
What do you think leadership?
If one of your colleague keep delaying your project how do you handle it?
How did you handle the conflicts between your colleague? Give me a real
example.
7. If your manager's point of view is really different from you and you are
very insist in yours and you are sure it is the right way to go.
How do you handle it if your manager doesn't accept your point at all?
8. If you can't finish your tasks in time. What will you do?
If you face a foundamental change just before the shipping date,
what will you do?
(If you don't do the change the client won't be satisfied.)
How do you define the milestone/schedule for each developing periods.
9. I saw you had a lot of working experiences.
However, I am not interested in what you had done or your tech skills.
Now, tell me what do you see your lackage / growing during pervious working
periods.
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作者: LINC (Go cubs!) 看板: Job
標題: Re: [討論] soft questions
時間: Thu May 11 06:38:58 2006
You should understand the philosophy of these questions. The philosophy is
simple, Bill Gates said if you are smart enough, he can teach you anything.
So he puts all emphasis on "IQ" or "brain teaser" in front of any
professional skills.
This is obviously true: if you are smart enough, you can major any subject
in college without any problem. A person which can only learn a particular
thing or make one thing work is not smart and talented. More important,
high-tech is changing very fast, especially in software industry. All computer
skills we learned from college won't last for 10 years. So the philosophy is
they want to hire people who can do things, not what they have done.