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...is the day 50% of the conversion boils down to -- well, supposedly. I had the last of the mock interviews today with someone on the team who I know but don't really see or work with. I booked it in the same conference room as the train wreck mock interview with The Game of Life problem and hoped it would turn out better than that.
Unfortunately I had to make it for lunchtime since it's incredibly hard to book a conference room in the NYC office in the afternoon. The interviewer was surprised I managed to book an actual conference room at all (phone rooms are too tiny and the whiteboards in there -- if they even have one -- are too small). I chugged a coffee beforehand to test my theory from the last mock interview even though I didn't feel terribly tired.
CSS is hard
(I'm lacking on relevant pictures today)
Once again I got another real question that was also conceptually simple. I didn't even need to use a data structure at all. Without missing a beat I was able to first explain the brute force solution and then immediately follow up with the (almost) optimal linear solution and write the code for it. I had to correct myself after writing it all out since there was the possibility of an out of bounds exception.
I finished the problem with 20 minutes to spare so I got a hint that there was actually a logarithmic solution but I didn't see it until after it was explained with more hints. I then wrote the full code for that in what time I had left, but I was told that as a converting intern I probably would be fine if it were a real interview and I never came across the most optimal solution. The interviewer seemed pretty happy so I'm guessing that means I'm interview-ready.
The team was waiting for us right outside the conference room to go to lunch so we all went to Hemispheres. Right after that I had my last meeting with my host to wrap things up. I picked the best of my changelists to add to my final evaluation and filled out the rest of it explaining what I worked on, project milestones, and what technologies/languages I had to use/learn to complete the project. I also did a brief walkthrough of my presentation for tomorrow (which has now been cut down to even less time to present half an hour's worth of material because 5 interns need to present in a single hour).
A colorful wall of the room I'm presenting in tomorrow
You can probably guess the name of the conference room
It seems the internship's finally drawing to a close now that I checked in presumably my last changelist today. I was told to relax and enjoy NYC now that I'm done with my project, the documentation is finished and turned over, and final presentations/interviews are next. I'm thinking of either a trip to the Met or a bike ride across Central Park.