I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at The Technical Committee (Bellevue, WA) in Jan 2010
Interview
1) Initial Phone Screen with Recruiter
2) Technical Phone Screen
3) Resume and phone interview notes submitted to company.
4) Positive feedback and schedule in person interview.
5) Four hour in person interview, different person each hour.
Given the nature of their work, there is very little coding or building of a product.
The task they are performing is finding all the "Bugs" in Microsoft's Network Protocol Documentation.
People are silo'd and this is not a collaborative team effort.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
A homological word is one that applies to itself, e.g. the word ‘polysyllabic’, which is polysyllabic. A heterological word is one that does not apply to itself, e.g. the word ‘Spanish’, which is not Spanish. The word homological is homological. Is the word heterological, heterological or homological?
Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a Mercedes-Benz; behind the others, Mars Bar. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a Mars Bar. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?
Imagine you are standing in front of a mirror, facing it. Raise your left hand. Raise your right hand. Look at your reflection. When you raise your left hand your reflection raises what appears to be his right hand. But when you tilt your head up, your reflection does too, and does not appear to tilt his/her head down. Why is it that the mirror appears to reverse left and right, but not up and down?
