I have an interview in a couple hours...

[JE3146]

Originally Posted by markem

sweet, Jordan! Let me know which area and I can have my MS friends scope out the group for you before you decide if you want to take the job.

I appreciate it.

This was just the technical review, ie stage 1.

If I make it to stage 2, then I'll get to meet the teams I could work for over a series of like 6 to 8 interviews.

So if I make it to stage 2, I may have you dig up some info for me


Interview went well though. Totally forgot the syntax of a coding question they asked but I haven't used that stuff in over 2 years. My pseudo code was spot on exactly right though. So at least I knew that much.

Background info and current projects discussions went about as good as they could. He seemed very interested in stuff I was doing. A lot of positive reactions and comments about it.

So now I get to wait ... I'll know within a week or two.

excellent sir...

<fingers crossed>

[DBall]

That's just straight awesome.

[mosesbotbol]

That's exciting!

What were some of the techincal questions you were asked?
What kind of role are they recruiting for?

Well done, #2.

[elderboy02]

What coding question were you asked?

What pseudo code did you have to write?

[chippewastud79]

Nice work Jordan

[JE3146]

Originally Posted by elderboy02

What coding question were you asked?

What pseudo code did you have to write?

Create a Linked List in C

Then create a function that that takes the list and reverses it's order.

I've been doing mostly embedded C programming, and before that strictly Perl, so writing out data structures and pointers and all that jazz in C is about 2 years rusty.

Looking back on it, it wasn't that hard of a task, but at least the thought process that I had was right, and so was my answer, even if the syntax wasn't correct Could have asked to do it in Perl, but I couldn't think of how to do data structures in it until I had left the interview and realized I could have used a hash in place of a struct in C. Was a simple mistake, but 'in the moment' i just blanked

That and I had about 5 minutes to do this. Thought no way in hell they'd ask me to do something related to data structures in a 30 minute interview, but alas, I was wrong. I'll be prepped and ready if it happens again though. Believe that.


If I don't make it to stage 2, I'm 99.99% sure it's because of that.

[JE3146]

Originally Posted by mosesbotbol

That's exciting!

What were some of the techincal questions you were asked?
What kind of role are they recruiting for?

A very vague Software development position or a Hardware development position.

Could be in any one of 3 dozen divisions really.

[Riff Raff]

Originally Posted by JE3146

Create a Linked List in C

Then create a function that that takes the list and reverses it's order.

I've been doing mostly embedded C programming, and before that strictly Perl, so writing out data structures and pointers and all that jazz in C is about 2 years rusty.

Looking back on it, it wasn't that hard of a task, but at least the thought process that I had was right, and so was my answer, even if the syntax wasn't correct Could have asked to do it in Perl, but I couldn't think of how to do data structures in it until I had left the interview and realized I could have used a hash in place of a struct in C. Was a simple mistake, but 'in the moment' i just blanked

That and I had about 5 minutes to do this. Thought no way in hell they'd ask me to do something related to data structures in a 30 minute interview, but alas, I was wrong. I'll be prepped and ready if it happens again though. Believe that.


If I don't make it to stage 2, I'm 99.99% sure it's because of that.

Positive mental attitude! I wish you all the luck in the world!

Make sure you know the 5 FSMO roles! That was the first question I was asked when I applied for Google. Needless to say, I didn't know it then. I do now!

Good luck brother!