Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Fog Creek, etc

Re:Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Fo... by mkopinsky on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @07:18PM (#4010625)

Re: presentation

I was once given this requirement for a scientific computing-type position at an industrial research lab. Most of their applicants were PhD-types, for whom giving an hour-long presentation on their last six years of research was par for the course. For me, it meant I had to scramble to put together a PowerPoint of my undergrad curriculum and research opportunities.

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Re:Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Fo... by utlanning on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @07:20PM (#4010628)

Yeah, that sucks. Fortunately my presentation doesn't need to be an hour long. I still haven't settled on a topic. :P

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Re:Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Fo... by mkopinsky on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @07:43PM (#4010699)

Nah, it didn't suck. One of the strongest "soft" skills I learned in college was giving Powerpoint presentations. Almost as many engineering classes had Powerpoint requirements as papers. In my case, I didn't need to choose a topic - the topic was my educational background and research I had done.

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Re:Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Fo... by utlanning on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @07:55PM (#4010742)

Being required to scramble around for a presentation sucks

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Re:Interviewing at Google, Facebook, Foursquare, Dropbox, Fo... by mkopinsky on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @08:11PM (#4010796)

They gave me a few days notice, it was enough time. The only weird thing was that they were surprised when I asked what the presentation should be on - in their minds, of course everyone already a presentation prepared of their PhD thesis. As (perhaps) the only candidate without a PhD (I don't know why they flew me out either...), I was not familiar with their standard rules of the game.

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