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MrShankly
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United Kingdom371 Posts
November 10 2011 21:59 GMT
#121
HEy congradulations!
DONATE SC2 BETA KEY TO ME PLEASE
Xzilend
Profile Joined March 2011
Canada29 Posts
November 10 2011 22:14 GMT
#122
Oh nice, I was also at the campus (on the same day as you!) interviewing for Software Development Engineer in Test (Intern), but didn't get the job... maybe we saw each other!
MrBitter: "What do you do when you attack?" ... Student: "I lose?"
memcpy
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States459 Posts
November 10 2011 23:03 GMT
#123
Cool blog. I live near Redmond and I'm studying CS so I'll be doing a Microsoft interview pretty soon. Nice insight.
Vasoline73
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States7821 Posts
November 10 2011 23:19 GMT
#124
Sick cool. Congrats
Telcontar
Profile Joined May 2010
United Kingdom16710 Posts
November 10 2011 23:32 GMT
#125
Congrats on the MS offer. Good luck with your Google interview as well.

By the by, if you get an offer from the latter as well, which will you choose?
Et Eärello Endorenna utúlien. Sinome maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn' Ambar-metta.
Firesilver
Profile Joined December 2010
United Kingdom1190 Posts
November 10 2011 23:53 GMT
#126
'Grats on the offer and I hope you take the job that's best for you, great insight on the interviewing process of these huge companied though, cheers.
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Triscuit
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States722 Posts
November 10 2011 23:55 GMT
#127
On November 11 2011 08:32 Telcontar wrote:
Congrats on the MS offer. Good luck with your Google interview as well.

By the by, if you get an offer from the latter as well, which will you choose?


That's a hard question, and honestly it will come down to the content of the job. They both offer comparable salaries, benefits, etc., and they're both huge and reputable companies. I would have to go with the specific job that I feel is best for me and my career.
ComaDose
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada10357 Posts
November 10 2011 23:58 GMT
#128
This scares me so much.
I code for money and I could not do that on a white board.
Some of the other questions sound like something a teacher would try and trick you with.
I better shape up.
BW pros training sc2 is like kiss making a dub step album.
Corvi
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Germany1406 Posts
November 11 2011 00:05 GMT
#129
i would be very interested to hear about your experiences at google! man, i love that company so much. wish i could get a job there some day.
SCbiff
Profile Joined May 2010
110 Posts
November 11 2011 00:59 GMT
#130
Nice read, congrats on the offer. Your journey begins...

As for the nlog(n) tree sort: I don't want to give away the answer for those who like a puzzle, but here's a hint: the key lies in how you store the integers in the tree, not the retrieval itself. Let the nature of the data structure help you.

Also, I'm pretty sure putting it all in a tree, then pulling it all back out into an array and doing a qsort is not what they're after (since the tree itself is irrelevant in that approach).
DyEnasTy
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States3714 Posts
November 11 2011 01:15 GMT
#131
I wish I was smart D:

Nice blog
Much better to die an awesome Terran than to live as a magic wielding fairy or a mindless sac of biological goop. -Manifesto7
Pugget
Profile Joined November 2010
United States212 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-11 01:21:53
November 11 2011 01:21 GMT
#132
As someone who has done an on-site interview with Google, a couple suggestions. First, if you find your knowledge on basic tree algorithms lacking, make sure to brush up. Much of Google's core code makes use of distributed tree and hash structures, and while they probably wont expect you to know much of the distributed versions, they will expect you to be able to work with both trees and hashes as local data structures. Do not expect to luck out and not see questions involving them.

Second, be ready to code in one language, and make sure you know some of the more esoteric features of that language. The question that was the hardest for me involved combining C++ operators and C macros. They will ask which language you know best, and wont expect you to program in anything else.

Finally, brush up on string algorithms, particular those that use trees (tries, TSTs, etc.). These are critical in many of their systems. Memory management will likely also be on the menu if you decide to do the interview in C or C++.

I had great fun at my interview at Google, and I think that's the way to approach it. Don't worry about the job, just go ready to have a day of really interesting problems. Best of luck!
Node
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States2159 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-11 01:34:53
November 11 2011 01:34 GMT
#133
Very cool. :D I've lived in Redmond for two years now. It really is a wonderful place, isn't it? The Marriott you spoke of is only a few blocks away from me, and I know a guy that has a desk job there. Small world, huh? I've also got a friend that recently got offered an interview with Microsoft, and is really excited. I'll be sure to pass this blog on!

Thanks!
whole lies with a half smile
HowitZer
Profile Joined February 2003
United States1610 Posts
November 11 2011 01:58 GMT
#134
The thing about the algorithms is interesting. I've thought for a while it would be a good exercise to write some search algorithms, test them out and even plot the results to verify what all the books say.
Human teleportation, molecular decimation, breakdown and reformation is inherently purging. It makes a man acute.
LeapofFaith
Profile Joined November 2011
United States446 Posts
November 11 2011 02:01 GMT
#135
I laughed at the part where you said that we in Seattle have it lucky. Rain, rain, and rain all day
thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
November 11 2011 02:03 GMT
#136
congrats! say hi to my friend at Test II
Aelonius
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Netherlands432 Posts
November 11 2011 02:26 GMT
#137
On November 11 2011 03:33 JieXian wrote:

wow wow hahaha nice

I understood the second part but could you please explain the first part?

Show nested quote +
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.


Is it basically hiding the password well? Why will you need to do it? Is it modifying the way your password is stored in your pc? And wouldn't people start knowing and looking for this? A simple highlight will easily show that you're using white space obsfucation right?

And how can they hack with this? Since you're using it as a security measure .


I may not be a CS major grad, or do much in this field, however my own major which is Information Security Management, really makes me feel itchy when I hear about obfuscation. It looks like security through obscurity.
''The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.''—Ronald Reagan
Doraemon
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Australia14949 Posts
November 11 2011 02:57 GMT
#138
awesome work! well done, you are about to embark on one of the biggest changes in your life, wish you all the best.

MS hiring policy is certainly very rigourous by the sounds of it...6 interviews in one day! just wow, at least they weren't all behavioural questions!.

but $8 lunch is expensive?! haha. barely get a burger for 8 bux around here. =P

good luck son
Do yourself a favour and just STFU
ftd.rain
Profile Joined December 2010
United Kingdom539 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-11 03:18:48
November 11 2011 02:58 GMT
#139
Great read, I was a CS major grad but it wasn't really my thing or at least it didn't interest me much in comparison to e.g playing games and watching series so I couldn't really bring myself to study it because I'm such a lazy ass .Everything felt so hard without studying which wasn't the norm for me(not trying to brag here even though it might seem as such) and a lot of other little things took place that probably had great influence in how everything turned but anwyays, I just kept going through the semesters missing A LOT of classes(attend one day, miss the other and so on) so I eventually quit even though I felt like I didn't really give it a try which makes me so so disappointed in myself, I mean, a lot of people manage to do what they have to do despite their problems, right?
scarymeerkat
Profile Joined March 2011
Canada107 Posts
November 11 2011 03:02 GMT
#140
What do you mean by the car braking system question? How did you respond? Why is that relevant?
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