I feel like these have been standard practices in most of the startups I have worked with over the past 10 years. It is interesting to see that this isn’t the norm already.
Former MSFTie here: I was doing FTE interviews in the OSD/Bing org about four years ago and the “puzzle questions” were long gone even then. So either this post is somewhat belated or this particular PM division is a bit behind. It’s a big company and individual orgs/teams have a lot of leeway in how they hire, rather than a company-wide diktat, so either is possible.
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