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I am in grad school and live with roommates in the SV. Amongst the six of us, we have interviewed at a cumulative of 20 big SV names in the last month and of co
by ultimoo 13y ago
I am in grad school and live with roommates in the SV. Amongst the six of us, we have interviewed at a cumulative of 20 big SV names in the last month and of course we discuss the interviews frequently with one another.
Companies like Broadcom, Cisco, Juniper, Anritsu, Apple etc. solely rely on the programming problems the OP talked about.
HP focuses on riddles and puzzles to a point where it is ridiculous and mind-numbing (1 hours interview, two interviewers, about 15 riddles :-/)
There is however a marked difference in the way companies in SoMA, SF interview you -- conceptual discussions, chatting about previous projects, finding out about your open source contributions, asking you about what you like about a certain language, talk about editors a little, etc. And I'm also including companies like SCEA, who although a part of larger companies, behave in this way.
Unfortunately none of us interviewed at Google or Facebook, so I have no comments there.
P.S. Most of us have accepted offers at smaller companies in SoMA, SF.
- wowoc 13y agoWhat's SoMA?
- reikonomusha 13y agoA neighborhood. "South of Market Street", in San Francisco.
- theunixbeard 13y agoAn area of San Francisco: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_of_Market,_San_Francisco http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_of_Market,_San_Francisco
- Luyt 13y agoMay I toot the horn of http://somafm.com/ http://somafm.com/ here? An excellent SoMA-based internet radio station. I'm especially fond on the GrooveSalad channel, http://somafm.com/groovesalad/ http://somafm.com/groovesalad/
- quesera 13y agoSouth of Market, an area of San Francisco. ...but it's usually "SoMa", like SoHo in NYC -- not "SoMA" like MoMA in NYC. Folks who have lived in SF for longer than the current tech wave will tell you that it's properly "South of Market", not camel-cased anything. :)
- bane 13y ago> Most of us have accepted offers at smaller companies You'll probably be happier, more challenged and learn more this way. Having worked from ultra-small to ultra-big, I learned the most from the small to medium-small places. There's fewer people to fall back on, so you end up cross training.