Well it didn't go too bad. I think. It's hard to say. I ... was a little nervous. This was the first real set of interviews I've had since I interviewed for a internship between my third and fourth years. I had a couple interviews then - one on the phone with IBM that went disastrously, and one with the math department that went far better, but they didn't give me the job. To be fair, the IBM interview was after a week of final exams where I had 4 exams, one on each day at 9am.

So yesterday morning I waited for my 9am phone call. Well, even that was complicated. They were calling 4pm their time 9am our time, but with the daylight savings time changed this past weekend I figured they might've not remembered we switched time. So I did the "math" ... and got it wrong. So I was ready for an 8am phone call that didn't come. Then half past nine I finally looked it up on the internet and found that it was wrong and that 4pm Dublin time was 10am our time. Well, that was a good start to my interview.

I don't want to go into tremendous detail about the interview here. I kind of feel like I'm not well-suited to interviews. I have this tendency to guard everything I say with conditionals, even if I'm relatively certain of the answer.

The interview consisted of talking with a total of 5 people. I first was asked questions from one pair of developers, one of whom did his masters on Poker in our research group. Then I talked with another pair for awhile, followed by the head of the IT division. The last part of the interview was the most pleasant, partially because he wasn't grilling me but partially because it was kind of cool to talk about shared interest in the computing area.

I have mixed feelings about how the interview went. I kind of feel like I didn't do well, but at the same time I think I didn't give any wrong answers and not too many blank answers. I stumbled through some questions, and I probably didn't sound very confident on the other end, but we'll have to see what they say in the next couple days. Hopefully at the least I've managed to earn another interview, if not an offer.

In the meantime, I've got a bunch of cool things to work on for work so I have some interesting stuff to occupy my time with in the meantime.

Heraldk