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Got up at 6:30 this morning to put on the suit I've worn for all of an hour before in my life, and headed off to the airport. Everything was going swimmingly until I got to the rental car office, and learned that they simply can't rent to anyone under 21.
Oops.
Plan B - take a taxi. No huge deal, it's from an airport. There are taxis. This does mean however that I get to nVidia an hour before my interview, lunchless. The receptionist (most awesomest receptionist EVER, by the way) thus takes me over to the company cafeteria, crowded for the lunch hour, then lets me into a conference room so I could rest and eat. (This conference room was wired for 5.1 surround sound, I kid you not.) Finally, it's nearly interview time (1), so she calls down the head of the team I'm interviewing for.
I'm led to a much smaller conference room, with about enough room for a small table and a couple whiteboards. I then remain there until 6, while different people take 45-minute shifts in coming in and quizzing me on C code and OpenGL. I see a whole bunch of problems from CS105, previous phone interviews, and even the GRE. The whole time I feel overdressed, being interviewd by people in t-shirts or shorts, and eventually the last person to come in is a HR type. He goes on to mention that he's already been getting good feedback from people and that I should basically expect to keep hearing from them. He then quotes the standard intern salary, and my jaw drops a bit. (I'll not quote it here, but feel free to ask me.)
Finally, 6:00 and I'm actually let out. A cab back to the airport and a quick fooding there - I had $11 left in cash, and $6 of that was needed for parking at Ontario - and a flight back. I've proceeded to be useless since.
But, now, bed. Tomorrow is back to being normal.
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Oops.
Plan B - take a taxi. No huge deal, it's from an airport. There are taxis. This does mean however that I get to nVidia an hour before my interview, lunchless. The receptionist (most awesomest receptionist EVER, by the way) thus takes me over to the company cafeteria, crowded for the lunch hour, then lets me into a conference room so I could rest and eat. (This conference room was wired for 5.1 surround sound, I kid you not.) Finally, it's nearly interview time (1), so she calls down the head of the team I'm interviewing for.
I'm led to a much smaller conference room, with about enough room for a small table and a couple whiteboards. I then remain there until 6, while different people take 45-minute shifts in coming in and quizzing me on C code and OpenGL. I see a whole bunch of problems from CS105, previous phone interviews, and even the GRE. The whole time I feel overdressed, being interviewd by people in t-shirts or shorts, and eventually the last person to come in is a HR type. He goes on to mention that he's already been getting good feedback from people and that I should basically expect to keep hearing from them. He then quotes the standard intern salary, and my jaw drops a bit. (I'll not quote it here, but feel free to ask me.)
Finally, 6:00 and I'm actually let out. A cab back to the airport and a quick fooding there - I had $11 left in cash, and $6 of that was needed for parking at Ontario - and a flight back. I've proceeded to be useless since.
But, now, bed. Tomorrow is back to being normal.
click
