NetApp Web Developer Interview

Interviewed Nov 2010 in Research Triangle Park, NC (took a day)

I had a very long phone interview with Director who asked me to come in and interview in person with others. The interview in person consisted of 3 people on potential team, and one manager of sister team. Each person was in the room one at a time, lasting about and hour per person. The first person was strictly technical, next was a little bit technical and a bit personality fit, third was all personality. The last person was the lead for the group. He was interesting. The entire hour I felt like I was watching a peacock spread its tail feathers and dance around. He talked about himself quite a bit and every once in a while he mentioned a game we were to play at the end. Well towards the end of the painful hour he decided to play this GREAT game. The game was basically throwing out two words and I needed to pick one without thinking...this was fun. "Sober" or "Party", "Complacent" or "Bored", it took him 3-4 minutes between each set of words to think of the next set. By the end of all this I realized I could not take this person as my lead, and I think my attitude showed that. Not to mention the fact that on the way out he showed me all the great video games and ping pong tables, but said "You don't want to get caught using this stuff when others are working." Cool.