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Interviewed Aug 2011 in San Francisco, CA (took 2 weeks)

I have applied online for an internship position in a new program IGN started called Code Foo. The application process included the programming puzzle, couple of brainteasers and a proof that I am passionate about the company. It was an awesome experience where me and 28 other interns learned new skills and worked on real projects. After 4 weeks of the internship I was interviewed for a full-time position. The process consisted of seven one on one interviews with engineers and one non-engineer whose goal was to see if my personality fits the culture of IGN. Of course, at the beginning I was nervous, but everyone was friendly and nice, in addition, you can tell that people at IGN are passionate about what they do - just watch the video tour of the office and you will understand. On the day before last of my internship I received the offer!

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What was the hardest bug you have encountered and how did you fix it?

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Why do you want to work for IGN

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I Applied Online and the interview consisted of a 1:1 Interview.

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Interviewed and No Offer

Interviewed Feb 2011 (took a day)

Was asked in general about my course work projects and some basic web development questions

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What does $("document").ready mean?

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I got the interview through a College or University and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.

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Interviewed Jan 2010 in Brisbane, CA (took 2 weeks)

Applied Online through their career site. Got selected for a phone screen. Phone screen was based on Resume skillset and experience. Then got scheduled for onSite. It was a four hour interview. Tested on basic data structure and language based questions. I met with almost all the members in the group that I was interviewed for. They were amicable and discussed all the questions I had for them including their work culture and other activities they do. The final round was with the recruiter. He said he would hire as contract to hire so the candidate to be hired would be accounted for credibility in the probation period before they might be hired full time.

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Questions on multi threaded programming with respect to servlets and database access

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Many questions were scenario based. One questions involved asking me to design a datastructure for an application and asked me why I would go for that particular data structure?

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