{"id":87614149,"date":"2007-03-17T21:13:52","date_gmt":"2007-03-18T05:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614149"},"modified":"2007-03-17T21:13:57","modified_gmt":"2007-03-18T05:13:57","slug":"might-not-beat-a-5th-grader-but-maybe-microsofts-stealth-departmentll-want-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614149","title":{"rendered":"Might not beat a 5th grader, but maybe Microsoft’s stealth department’ll want me?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Arwen<\/a> and I were watching this year’s “I’m a big dope on National Television (With Tense Theme Music and Dramaaaaaaaatic Pauses)” because 30Rock (Go TIna Fey – Woot!) wasn’t on, and in this particular episode of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader (AYSTA5G), we both got a question wrong. (Go here<\/a> for the breakdown of what we got wrong, and why).<\/p>\n

Right. So we thought this was odd, and Arwen went off to figure out why we were wrong on something that seemed pretty straight-forward, and in the meantime I pulled up my recently tagged urls<\/a> to see what I’ve flagged to remember, or just to read later. One of them was a partial list of Microsoft Interview Questions<\/a>, and the raw list of riddles, algorithms, applications, and thinkers from Microsoft<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Most of them, we agreed almost immediately on how we would attack the problems, which is sorta neat, ’cause we don’t really think the same way, but we’d very quickly agree on the best way to figure out the answer (even if we were too Saturday Morning to *actually* see if we were correct in our hypothoses).<\/p>\n

One of the questions under the Riddles was this:<\/p>\n