I just had a conference call to prep me for some interviews Wednesday and Thursday. A 30 person conference call is weird, it keeps being interrupted by “mrmmrmrmlle has joined the conversation” and it’s so awkward when they ask everyone to introduce themselves. Actually the whole thing felt a little like a summer camp.

Apparently I should expect to answer questions like “how would you design a vending machine in hospital” rather than trick questions. That and I should review my 200 level CompSci courses (that’s easy, I only took one).

I’m heading into over seven hours of interviewing, four of one on one interviews, three of activities (tours, a discounted shopping trip), a lunch and a dinner.

The weird thing is I’ll know by Thursday night if I have the job and they want an answer Thursday night. Which is a bit tight. There are maybe 30-40 of us being interviewed as product managers and they’ll probably hire 40% of us. There are 19 groups I could end up at depending on who likes me.

It was weird what some people were worried about, for instance: would there be whiteboards involved? And they stressed that casual clothes were acceptable to no end.