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Software Developer at Fog Creek Software
Posted Jan 3, 2012
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jan 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)
Fog Creek is a take no prisoners kind of firm with questions that will draw primarily from the data structures and algorithms. Be familiar with C as well as with a mainstream OOP language such as Java/C++. Other than that, the interview questions are fairly standard and of the same variety you can expect from Google or Amazon. Be prepared! My mistake was not reviewing enough of the relevant material. Seems like a great company to work for though with a solid grasp on the concept of best practices (thanks, I'm sure, in large part to the prominence of Joel Spolsky).
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Software Developer Intern at Fog Creek Software
Posted Oct 6, 2011
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3.0
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Oct 2011 in New York, NY (took a day)
I e-mailed in my resume with a cover letter explaining why I wanted to work at Fog Creek. An automated response told me they'd connect me. A day later I got an e-mail to schedule an interview with coding. I heard back two days later with rejection.
I was applying because I thought I could reach the level they wanted by the end of the year (I have 2 years experience with coding but only a month with C++) so it surprised me when they said they wanted to interview now, but the questions were easier (I imagine absolute softball questions for anyone with more experience) than I thought they should have been.
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Write a function that returns the byte that occurs most frequently in an array of bytes
Parameters:
Array of bytes
Count of the number of bytes in the array (if you want it)
The char buffer is null terminated
Each number should be printed only once, and should be on a new line.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Software Developer Intern at Fog Creek Software
Posted Mar 8, 2010
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4.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2009 (took a day)
I emailed my application. I got a response from a robot asking for more details. Eventually, I heard back about a phone interview. The technical question was about data structures for a text editor. I gave an answer about using some linked structure with arrays. I heard back a while later with a rejection.
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Software Development Intern at Fog Creek Software
Posted Feb 18, 2010
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4.0
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2009 (took 2 weeks)
2 rounds of phone interviews, followed by on-site.
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Software Developer Intern at Fog Creek Software
Posted Feb 12, 2010 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Nov 2009 in New York, NY (took a day)
I applied via e-mail. I got an automated confirmation immediately which asked me to confirm some basic information (location, GPA, phone number). About three weeks later I got an e-mail about setting up a phone interview. The phone interview happened three days later and took about an hour. It was a one-on-one discussion with a current software developer (and former intern).
I heard back two days later.
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