Most people think through if they want to live in the city, but what people forget to think about is the long term impact of living in a particular city. Suppose you’re graduating college and you get an offer from Google’s Irvine CA office. That’s fantastic. You must be really excited. Great company + great [...]

Somehow, many candidates have gotten the impression that the interview process is some elaborate system, and if their process is different from their friend’s, it must be a reason for it. The truth is so much more straightforward than that, and once you get, everything will make sense. Or that’s my hope, anyway. Here’s how [...]

UPDATE: Share this with your friends to improve your chances at winning a free copy! UPDATE 2: Raffle has completed! Thanks for playing Since everything is best in rhyming form, I will open this with a poem from an anonymous (and awesome) reader: If you’ve ever wondered how to navigate the Amazon forest, Or pondered how [...]

A candidate recently came to me seeking the advice for the following situation: A few weeks after accepting a software development position with Dell, he received an offer from Microsoft as a Program Manager. This was his dream job, and his dream company, but he would have to turn it down. Or would he? I [...]

Years ago, rumors used to circulate about Microsoft interviews.  They were the hot, new company that everyone wanted to work.  With envy came the urban myths.  These rumors have since been transfered to Google, and will surely be transfered to some new company in due time. Bloggers – always desperate for links and traffic – [...]

A guest blog post I wrote for Women Grow Business: Working for Microsoft, Google and Apple, I not only became a better engineer – I became a better entrepreneur. Their successes and failures, encapsulated in these five lessons, provided me with invaluable instruction in how to build a company and effectively compete. #1. Build a [...]

Microsoft Loyalty Scorecard:+ 1: Using Microsoft search at work.- 1: Using Microsoft search to prepare for your upcoming interviews… at work. Kumo is Microsoft’s new search engine that was released internally this month. No one seems to be talking about it much externally, and it doesn’t show up in Google Analytics under “Search Engines”. Kumo [...]

I’ve been using Talkinator, an embeddable chat program for websites, for a few months now. I realize I might be the only post-1995 site to want a chatroom, but it’s actually rather useful. For example, when people are discussing, say, Microsoft Interview Questions, they’ll jump in the chatroom to discuss problems. This use was expected. [...]

500 Microsoft Interview Questions on CareerCup —– As the founder of CareerCup, the web’s largest source for technical interview questions, I have over 500 Microsoft Interview Questions at my disposal, with more added every day. Everyday people ask me what they should study before their Microsoft interview. So, without further ado, I present the the [...]

My laptop, which I fear is on its last legs, got a little servicing today from Dell. It’d been blue screening frequently since, well, since Dell last visited me two months ago (broken fan -> overheating laptop). I’m going to assume that’s just a coincidence, although the timing is suspicious… I tried reinstalling windows first, [...]