{"id":958739,"date":"2025-09-01T12:06:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T06:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=958739"},"modified":"2025-09-01T12:06:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T06:36:02","slug":"microsoft-founder-bill-gates-shares-how-he-would-handle-the-toughest-job-interview-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/01\/microsoft-founder-bill-gates-shares-how-he-would-handle-the-toughest-job-interview-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft founder Bill Gates shares how he would handle the &#8216;toughest&#8217; job interview question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft founder Bill Gates once found himself in the hot seat of a job interview with basketball legend Steph Curry. But instead of discussing just philanthropy or basketball, Curry decided to turn the tables. He put Gates in the hot seat with a challenge: answer questions as if he were interviewing for a junior engineering role at Microsoft. For Bill Gates, who left Harvard to start Microsoft and went on to become one of the world\u2019s richest persons, it was a playful throwback.<\/p>\n<p>When Curry asked the standard interview question \u2013 \u201cWhy should we hire you?\u201d \u2013 Gates leaned on his programming skills. &#8220;You should look at the code that I&#8217;ve written. You know, I&#8217;m kind of crazy, I write software programs way beyond any classes that I&#8217;ve taken, and think I&#8217;ve gotten better over time,&#8221; he replied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft founder Bill Gates once found himself in the hot seat of a job interview with basketball legend Steph Curry. But instead of discussing just philanthropy or basketball, Curry decided to turn the tables. He put Gates in the hot seat with a challenge: answer questions as if he were interviewing for a junior engineering role at Microsoft. For Bill Gates, who left Harvard to start Microsoft and went on to become one of the world\u2019s richest persons, it was a playful throwback. When Curry asked the standard interview question \u2013 \u201cWhy should we hire you?\u201d \u2013 Gates leaned on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}