Job Interviews

Published January 10, 2011
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So I recently went for job interviews at both ArenaNet and Microsoft. I'm really excited about both positions, and I think the interviews went well, so we'll see what happens if/when the offers come through.

Going out to Washington was cool. I got to meet up with Josh Petrie for dinner a few nights, and I liked the area from what I was able to see of it. ArenaNet is working on some cool stuff, and it'd be great to finally be able to say that I worked in the games industry.

On the other hand, Microsoft has a pretty impressive campus, and the list of perks and benefits is pretty big. It's hard not to get caught up when you're interviewing for a team of several thousand people, all of whom work at a campus that sees 30,000 people working there every day. I interviewed for the Office Exchange team, which isn't exactly the area I'm most interested in, although it was nice to see that most of Exchange is now written in C#.

If I get an offer from both places, I'm still not sure which way I'm going to go. This is only for a 12-week summer position, as I still have a year of school to finish afterward, so there's a lot to take into consideration when making the final decision.
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stevenmarky
Good luck Mike.
January 11, 2011 10:53 AM
zer0wolf
Good luck!
January 11, 2011 11:32 PM
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