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

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

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

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!

Triscuit

United States722 Posts

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

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.

caelym

United States6421 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

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

Canada135 Posts

November 10 2011 17:02 GMT

#89

Congrats. Great read!

Slardar

Canada7593 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

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.

Triscuit

United States722 Posts

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

United States322 Posts

November 10 2011 17:09 GMT

#93

@the OP

Ever heard of white space obfuscation?

Triscuit

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

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

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]

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

vanick

United States53 Posts

November 10 2011 17:36 GMT

#98

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

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.

kingNothing42

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.