CoolBeans: From College to Industry

This can suck. But it isn't the end of the world. Take a lesson from me: I was turned down twice by Microsoft. That means I had to fly out from New York to Washington state three times, go through 16+ interviews and get burned four times in a row (interviewed...

Now what? Some tips: Know your resume – If you don't, it will bite you. Diversify your conversation between interviews – All your interviewers will get together and talk about you later. If you said the same thing to all, they won't have much to...

You'll notice that this week's puzzle is fairly easy. That's because it isn't meant to be done using a computer. Instead, take it and do it on a white board or hand writing on a piece of paper. If you've never done this before I'm sure it will surprise...

Today's Sunday post is brought to you buy: Socks! Yes, those crafty little devils that live in your top dresser drawer that come with an unwieldy requirement: they must be worn in pairs. Now, no rule says that you must wear a matching pair, but...

How do you ask your boss in a pleasant, non-confrontational way and with 100% no risk of any consequences for a promotion? Here’s the secret: you don’t. If you are performing above your job description, it’s time to be bumped up and you shouldn’t be...

This turned out to be an interesting round as the answers varied quite a bit. Some people recognized you could simply convert to a real integer, do the operation, and then convert back. Perfectly valid. Others chose to use loops to perform the operations...

Here’s some real life experience for you. I once walked into a lab and sat down. There was someone in there who was leaving and told me I had to leave too. I said I had a class in here in two minutes. He explained that I had to leave now because the policy...

It was like, wheeeeeee!! This isn't even remotely true. So if I put such a thing on my resume, I'd surely be outed. But putting down something that's remotely true, but still not really, is just as bad and just as dangerous. Glancing over someone...

Your challenge this week is to implement basic arithmetic for a different type of number representation. Instead of each bit representing a power of 2, each bit will represent a number. Only one bit will be set in any integer. The first few numbers are...

This is a frightening prospect: What if you came to work…and you had nothing to do? All your bugs have been resolved, no more documents need to be written, no new work on the horizon that you can get a head start. This may seem like a fantastic fantasy...