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CCitrus
Profile Joined July 2011
Canada164 Posts
November 10 2011 16:05 GMT
#81
Congratulations! Hope the job is everything you've dreamed of.

A Game of Thrones? This sentence practically needs spoilers.
On November 10 2011 15:31 Triscuit wrote:+ Show Spoiler +

He was very personable and noticed that I had brought along A Game of Thrones, so he made small talk about some of the characters and really helped to break the ice.

Noev
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States1105 Posts
November 10 2011 16:05 GMT
#82
What a great story, really interesting and well written. Glad to hear that they like you and good luck in your google interview. Hope that goes well also. I am going out for a google internship for next summer. Hope that works out. Blog your google interview experience also please!
flyinfart
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States95 Posts
November 10 2011 16:10 GMT
#83
As a seattle-ite, I feel obligated to tell you that food is ridiculously expensive here. When you can find a place that fills you up for less than 5 dollars, you frequent that place until they raise the prices. 8 dollars for a sandwich is completely normal, sadly.
feardragon
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States973 Posts
November 10 2011 16:10 GMT
#84
Thank you so much sir. I am sitting in the lobby of building 111 RIGHT NOW waiting another 50 minutes for my interview. reading evena bit of this has calmed down my nerves. Congrats and hopefully we'll meet if I get an offer too!
Ok Starcraft 2 Commentator
Triscuit
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States722 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-10 16:12:10
November 10 2011 16:11 GMT
#85
Thanks everybody! That came as a complete surprise, getting 4 pages of responses overnight.

I am a little concerned about whether or not I disclosed too much information. I figured a lot of the things I wrote were pretty general, and these things will change greatly from person to person. I know a lot of what I've wrote is pretty widely available on the web already, but maybe I should have been a bit more careful.

On November 11 2011 01:10 feardragon wrote:
Thank you so much sir. I am sitting in the lobby of building 111 RIGHT NOW waiting another 50 minutes for my interview. reading evena bit of this has calmed down my nerves. Congrats and hopefully we'll meet if I get an offer too!


Congratulations! Play with the Surface, dude. You'll forget all of your worries. <3
ymir233
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States8275 Posts
November 10 2011 16:35 GMT
#86
Niceeeeee you got into MS! This seems like a really interesting experience and I'm glad that you took the time to share it with us in detail.
Come motivate me to be cynical about animus at http://infinityandone.blogspot.com/ // Stork proxy gates are beautiful.
caelym
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States6429 Posts
November 10 2011 16:35 GMT
#87
congrats! I definitely think your starcraft connection helped you out. i interviewed there about a month ago and was rejected
iloahz
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
United States964 Posts
November 10 2011 16:38 GMT
#88
congrats!!! you deserve it man, seeing how you could solve some of the interview questions in such an impressive manner.
MrSparkle
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada135 Posts
November 10 2011 17:02 GMT
#89
Congrats. Great read!
Slardar
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada7596 Posts
November 10 2011 17:05 GMT
#90
Congratulations for the offer, good job! So now I ask you, is it too late to switch into CS?
Antedelerium
Profile Joined June 2010
United States224 Posts
November 10 2011 17:06 GMT
#91
Very nice, and good luck man. Don't get too stressed about Google interviews though. If you are confident in your abilities, then the Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, etc. interviews are all relatively similar with a varying degree of difficulty. It's interesting to actually hear the whole process from someone else who interviewed with them since my friends and I only casually talked about how the process was. Very useful writeup for those looking at the main software engineering companies.
"Isn't it ironic to yell the word silence?" ~B.C.
Triscuit
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States722 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-10 17:13:00
November 10 2011 17:08 GMT
#92
On November 11 2011 02:05 Slardar wrote:
Congratulations for the offer, good job! So now I ask you, is it too late to switch into CS?


It's never too late. :D The job market right now is quite good as well, if you have the skills and have specifically made yourself marketable by taking practical classes or taking on internships.
Perfect
Profile Joined August 2010
United States322 Posts
November 10 2011 17:09 GMT
#93
@the OP

Ever heard of white space obfuscation?

Triscuit
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States722 Posts
November 10 2011 17:20 GMT
#94
On November 11 2011 02:09 Perfect wrote:
@the OP

Ever heard of white space obfuscation?



I've heard of obfuscation in general, I don't know much about it.

Why?
Perfect
Profile Joined August 2010
United States322 Posts
November 10 2011 17:25 GMT
#95
I just wrote some powershell coding to use white space obfuscation to hide my Password to an administrator account that i need to call in my script but i dont want it to be locked into a secure string.

So what you do is you find the ASCII value of the letters in your password, you then conver that ascii value into a Binary code (obviously composed of only zero's and ones). Using ascii values 9 and 32 you can then turn all of your zeros and ones into Spaces and Tabs which are spit out into a .txt. When viewed with the naked eye the .txt looks blank, but its full of TABS and Spaces that get DEcoded back into your script as the password.

More of a hacker method used in VB that we are using in our enterprise "ethically"

Something fun
Triscuit
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States722 Posts
November 10 2011 17:30 GMT
#96
On November 11 2011 02:25 Perfect wrote:
I just wrote some powershell coding to use white space obfuscation to hide my Password to an administrator account that i need to call in my script but i dont want it to be locked into a secure string.

So what you do is you find the ASCII value of the letters in your password, you then conver that ascii value into a Binary code (obviously composed of only zero's and ones). Using ascii values 9 and 32 you can then turn all of your zeros and ones into Spaces and Tabs which are spit out into a .txt. When viewed with the naked eye the .txt looks blank, but its full of TABS and Spaces that get DEcoded back into your script as the password.

More of a hacker method used in VB that we are using in our enterprise "ethically"

Something fun


Ahaha, wow... That is pretty awesome actually. So like 'tab' decodes to 0 and 'space' decodes to 1 or vice versa?
Montana[TK]
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
1624 Posts
November 10 2011 17:36 GMT
#97
>They knew I was going to interview at Google afterwards.

This is a big one, how did they find out / did you tell them? If you somehow give them the impression that they might be missing out on talent that Google is about to get their hands on they will bend over backwards to hire you. GJ
Plexa: "It's not [caster] bashing when its the truth."
vanick
Profile Joined August 2010
United States53 Posts
November 10 2011 17:36 GMT
#98
On November 11 2011 01:10 feardragon wrote:
Thank you so much sir. I am sitting in the lobby of building 111 RIGHT NOW waiting another 50 minutes for my interview. reading evena bit of this has calmed down my nerves. Congrats and hopefully we'll meet if I get an offer too!

Good luck, stay chill, take a cup of water when offered (if only to get a breather), and don't forget to ask clarifying questions!
shindigs
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States4795 Posts
November 10 2011 18:13 GMT
#99
Thanks for sharing, I got nerves just reading through your interview process. You seem like a really talented programmer so I hope you get an offer at Google as well and face the ultimate first world problem choosing to work between Microsoft or Google.
Photographer@shindags || twitch.tv/shindigs
kingNothing42
Profile Joined January 2011
United States42 Posts
November 10 2011 18:13 GMT
#100
Sounds a lot like my experience when I interviewed, especially the part about driving to the hotel! It was kind of terrifying taking the rental through dark, unfamiliar streets to find the hotel in Bellevue. Congrats! Sorry I couldn't make the dinner, I was actually hosting another friend from college that was interviewing that day.
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