Tuesday, March 21, 2006

the interview

After about 3 weeks and the creation of a website that ended up being well beyond what the guy was expecting me to produce in a week, I finally got an interview. Before I go on, I would like to say I made a website about an illustration company in order to kill 2 birds with one stone. I showed off both my graphics design skills as well as my programming abilities.

I took the day off work to do this because I had no idea how long the interview would take. It consisted of a test and then 2 interviews. The test itself took an hour, well they gave me an how. There were 7 questions. One involved proof reading, another asked me to make a webpage, and there were 2 more programming ones. The remaining were logic questions. As you know they are my thing, they are what I do, so they were cake.

1)If the word FINITE can be represented by the number 5910, then what number represents the word ZENITH?
2)
1
11
21
1211
111221

what comes next in the sequence?
3)Tower of hanoi with 4 disks.

They were not terribly hard. After that they told me that it was more than an hour's worth of work. As they are telling me this, I am in the process of sliding it across the table, completed. They were quite impress that not only did I finish it, but it was all correct.

The interviews then proceeded after that. And just under 2 and half hours later, I walked out anticipating a phone call the following week.

Update:It turns out that I was the only one of the top three choices to respond to set up an interview. I was also the first person to complete the test under an hour and have it all correct. I got my phone call the following Monday telling me that formality-wise he could not offer me the job til 4/4 but it was pretty much mine.

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