I've got a job interview next week with a rather talented, well-known development group. (Which, I'm totally pumped about, especially after everyone told me you couldn't get a game dev job right out of college) They're putting me up in a hotel for the night, then the interview lasts the entirety of the following day. I've already taken an assessment test, and I've had a phone interview as well. We discussed career goals, programming knowledge, etc. I guess I'm just wondering what to expect from this all-day interview. It's hard for me to mentally fill 8 hours with interview activities.

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I guess I'm just wondering what to expect from this all-day interview.

Well, you'll probably have to go into it without knowing beforehand. You'll probably do just fine - sounds like you've done fine with the test and the phone interview (did you know "what to expect from" those before you did them?), so I imagine you'll do fine in this one too. Good luck!

I did kind of know what to expect from the test before I took it, since I had taken one for Midway at the beginning of the summer (they ended up calling me asking for an interview A WEEK AFTER I had taken an internship elsewhere, d'oh!). The Midway one was really easy, so I expected a similar kind of test. The one for this company was much more difficult, and it had a 3-hour time limit. I definitely did enjoy doing it though. It was a good challenge, more my kind of programming than the ASP.NET and simple hardware API programming I did at my internship.

I actually knowingly did one of the problems wrong, because I was running out of time, and another I didn't code a single line, just wrote a paragraph about the solution. We talked about it over the phone, and established that I'd have solved it had I had the time, but I hadn't done such algorithmic programming in quite some time, and needed a bit to get back in that mode.

The phone interview went well, talked about my projects and my knowledge of C/C++ (he asked a fair bit about inheritance especially).

I'm pumped for this interview, I've wanted this for at least 7 years now.

Good luck, let us know how you get on.

I asked, he said I'd be asked a lot of technical and coding questions. Kinda makes me nervous, but not too bad.