Began with Career Fair - Asked to interview next day at College
College campus interview -
Standard questions mentioned in previous interview reviews.
How to troubleshoot excel files.
Tell me about your computer.
If you could have any job in the world, fictional or real, what would be? BE CREATIVE
Q: Track around the equator, raised up one meter
Q. You have three cookies, 2 smaller ones, 1 large one, and a knife, You can eat either the two small ones, or the large one. How would you know which ones to eat if you wanted to eat the most?
A. Cut the cookies into quarters by slicing in half twice, Take a quarter from the two smaller ones and make a right angle, and use the larger one as the hypotenuse of the right triangle. This equates to a^2+b^2=c^2 and you can compare the areas.
Second round in Philly-
Interviewed with a total of 7 people.
First group of two were technical:
Q: Write a program to find the square root without math functions
A: Couple of functions - n/2 then find the error and compare to n +-.001
Q: Rock in a boat in a pool, you throw rock into pool, what happens to the level of the water in the pool
A: Density of item determines the pool level rise
Q:How many golf balls in a school bus
A:500,000
Second group:
Background info, resume stuff
Q:Write an infinite loop function
Q: I had worked with SQL a little - write a SQL statement or query
Third:
Q: Code a function to find the factorial
Q: Explain to me your internship work experience as if I were a 5-10 year old.
Fourth:
Basic behavioral questions
Fifth:
Basic behavioral questions
A week later was told we have decided to pursue other candidates that more closely match our requirements.