Salary Comparison. Company Ratings, Reviews, and Salaries. Careers Q&A. The Interviewing Cheat Sheet: 100 Resources for Interviewers and. The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (version 3.0) - Joel on Soft. By Joel Spolsky Wednesday, October 25, 2006 A motley gang of anarchists, free-love advocates, and banana-rights agitators have hijacked The Love Boat out of Puerto Vallarta and are threatening to sink it in 7 days with all 616 passengers and 327 crew members unless their demands are met. The demand? A million dollars in small unmarked bills, and a GPL implementation of WATFIV, that is, the esteemed Waterloo Fortran IV compiler.
(It’s surprising how few things the free-love people can find to agree on with the banana-rights people.) As chief programmer of the Festival Cruise programming staff, you’ve got to decide if you can deliver a Fortran compiler from scratch in seven days. Can you do it? “Well, I suppose, it depends,” you say. On what? “Um, will my team be able to use UML-generating tools?” Does that really matter? “I guess not.” OK, so, what does it depend on? “Will we have 19 inch monitors? Again, does this matter? “I guess not. Right. “Who are they?” Does that matter? “Sure! That’s it. Blog.mattgoyer.com » Technical interview at Amazon (SDE) and Mic. Executive Summary Interviewing is time consuming, tiring, and a lot of work.
But the reward for doing well is a full time job. Treat the whole process as a game and have a good time. And don’t give up. It took me a long time to get an interview with Amazon and I have failed at the Microsoft interview process before so keep at it. What else? Talk to friends.Aggressively pursue interview opportunities. How did I get two full time job offers from two great companies? Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are my own and not those of any past, present, or future employers. Getting the interviews I started the full time job hunt before school started in September. Seeing as my girlfriend, Natalie, had a full time unaccepted offer from Amazon it was not hard for her to get me into the process there. I never blogged about it, but I have hinted about it, but I interviewed with Microsoft in the Spring of 2003 for a program manager position. Preparation Initial interview screens In Seattle. 'Why Should I Hire You?' and Other Favorite Interview.