2012-06-18 11:30 - 11:45
- Phone interview with member of technical staff
- Asked to describe experience with Perl, Python, MySQL
- Asked what configuration management, modularity, and extensibility meant to me
- Asked about Subversion usage as well as documentation
- Learned about the interviewer's team and what they use
2012-06-26 11:04 - 11:20
- Phone interview with another member of technical staff
- Asked what I know about OnLive
- Learned about the interviewer's team and what they use and do
- Asked if I was a generalist or more of an in-depth person
- Asked about experience working in a team
- Asked about my process for adding features to a system
- Asked about Perl and Python experience
- Told the next step would be an in-person interview
2012-06-29 10:00 - 12:05
- Met with members from 2 teams, 5 people in total
- Described my background, how I got to where I was
- Asked about Perl and Python, Linux experience
- Asked about worst issue I had to deal with, as well as the most exciting thing I've worked out
- Asked about how much I thought my previous work project was an improvement over the existing system
- Asked a basic MySQL query question
- Asked about parsing two files
- Query question was straightforward
- Struggled a little bit with the parsing, but the interviewer was just seeing my approach and thought process, and didn't really have an answer
2012-07-10 13:31 - 13:42
- Quick phone call with director of engineering
- Being considered for two intern positions
- Got more information about what each group does and made a decision on which intern position was a better fit/more interesting
- Also got some information on the logistics of the internship (hours, vacation, duration, etc.)