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I nailed it. I did it. Thankfully, there were no complexity analysis questions. The majority of the time was taken with discussing on various levels a single concept - which amounts to what I would describe as open-ended problem solving. And then there was one otherwise off-topic algorithm question, which

So, I did the phone interview this evening. It was short - less than twenty minutes - and was just technical questions. I admitted up front that I wouldn't succeed with any of the complexity analysis problems, but he insisted on asking them anyway - probably just to

I just got a call from an in-house recruiter for one of the top five social networking sites. Unlike most job calls I get, this person was well spoken and seemingly intelligent. That's definitely a good start. The company sounds interesting enough. It looks like it would be

Two weeks into this project and there isn't a single defined feature or a single piece of data to work with. Most projects at least have the decency to start out well, and only after a while of building up your hope, turn to floundering and ultimately being

Me: Hello? Him: Hello. May I speak with Jones please? Me: Jones is my last name. You should refer to me as Curtis. Him: Okay. Hello my name is <unintelligible> and I work for <unintelligible>. Him: I have an opportunity that you might be interested in.

I was asleep. The phone rang. I stumbled over to the phone and tried to get my eyes to focus on the number. Probably a recruiter. Sent the call to voicemail. I made my way back to bed thinking that I could still claim the last eight minutes of sleep.

I do not have a Word version of my resume -- for religious reasons. And moral reasons. And digestive reasons. Instead, I maintain both a PDF and plain text version of my resume. Inevitably, every time I send my resume to a recruiter, I'll receive a response asking

In spite of looming deadlines, "eager" customers, project dependencies hinging on a timely completion of my project -- I spent an hour and a half this morning in a Sexual Harassment Training seminar; or was it Sexual Harassment Awareness? No. It was just Harassment Awareness. Whatever the case,