the silicon valley marathon

I'm not going into too many details, but I'll be interviewing at Apple next tuesday. Scary huh?

After interviewing with Juniper this summer, I've come to refer to the style in which companies in silicon valley interviews people as a "marathon" of sorts, and this one will be a bit different.

9:30 - 10:15 am paired interview (2 on 1)
10:15 - 11:00 am paired interview
11:00 - 11:45 am paired interview
11:45 - 12:45 pm paired interview (Lunch)
12:45 - 1:30 pm single interview (1 on 1)
1:30 - 1:45 pm single interview
1:45 - 2:30 pm paired interview
2:30 - 3:15 pm single interview
3:15 - 4:00 pm single interview
4:00 - 4:45 pm single interview

Juniper wasn't too bad, it was 7 interviews (only one of them was Mac-related, the position was a Mac developer position), but 10 interviews isn't a marathon, that's a medal of honor interview (above and beyond the call of duty, etc).

Needless to say, I'll be stressing out all weekend in preparation; i.e. writing loads of network related code, studying the entire TCP/IP stack again and again, practicing implementing tiny multicast servers/clients, and pouring over the mDNSResponder code until my brain implodes (or I deem myself competent in the zeroconf wizardry).

I won't say who I get to have lunch with, but to be mysterious, let's just say I've never had lunch with any of my geek idols, nor have I ever had lunch with anybody that's authored an RFC before.

Scary

[tags: apple, coreos, bonjour, employmentaid]

• Posted: 10/11/06 06:36PM
• Category: Scratch

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