Background
It was early December. Friend of mine (http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/tomek) who at this time was working for Microsoft (he is still working there) asked me whether I’m considering myself as an passionate about technology, and having abilities to write code in C/C++. I’ve answered yes. So I’ve updated my resume, send it over to Tomek, and forgot about whole thing.
Prologue
It was somewhere around of mid-January, when email have arrived. My resume was interesting enough to catch HR eye. I was appointed to phone interview. The day has come (or rather night, due to polish timezone). I had a drink, sat before skype, and it rang… I was asked several questions, mostly about my deep “thoughts” about software developing, testing and debugging. Nothing specific, rather general questions about approach. It was nice talk (did I mention about drink? :-)) ). At the end it turned out that both me and recruiter on the other side have started with computers on the same time, and on similar equipment. 8-bit computers. I’ve started witch famous and genuine Commodore 64 and “other side” with Atari. After this interview I was thinking I presented myself OK, but somehow did not expected any further steps. Something like that.
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