Yesterday as I left Building 19, I wasn’t really sure what was going to happen. I knew that I answered all of my interview questions pretty well - but you really receive no feedback along the way so you can’t be sure what’s going on.
After the fact, I thought more about it and I [...]
I just got out of my first interview here, and while my interviewer is writing up his review of what he thought of me I figured I would post a brief update.
Today I am interviewing with the Office Graphics group, and the Sharepoint group. The first person that I met with was the lead program [...]
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I’m on my way to Microsoft… wish me luck If I get a chance, I might post an update or two throughout the day.
Perhaps you are lucky enough to have had a “Creamie” - it’s a frozen treat that is similar to a fudgesicle in texture (but available in many flavors). Around Christmas time, they make an “Egg nog” Creamie that tastes much better than you would think it should. I’m not a big fan of egg nog, [...]
After my last post about my first round Microsoft screening interview, I was suprised to see that JobsBlog, Microsoft’s recruiting blog, had picked up my recap and linked to it. Good tihng I spellchecekd! Microsoft did get back to me somewhat soon after my interview, and let me know that they wanted to fly [...]
Here’s a scenario:
I am on a website with a lot of software listings - and I do a search for “BlackBerry.” No results come up, so I open another window and go do a different shareware repository. What is waiting at this second window - but an add targetting “Blackberries” - directing me to go [...]
I am watching TV right now (this post brought to you by the blackberry) Cindy Sheehan is up to her old antics. The news was showing her dancing with some regae band. When the clip first started, I couldn’t help but wonder why they were showing a clip of an unattractive man. Woops - that [...]
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Yesterday was “black friday” - the day that retailers cut their prices extremely low and open their doors extremely early to attract fanatical holiday shoppers. I believe that some of the practices of retailers on this day are proof that they hate consumers.
They open their doors at 5:00 am
they offer steep sales on items with [...]
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Yesterday morning, I had my first-round interview with Microsoft. My interviewer was a woman named Shauna. Shauna has been with Microsoft for two years and works doing testing for a Windows Communication group. My overall impression of the interview was favorable, but with an interview system set up to err on the side of false [...]
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