This was completely unexpected news, even for me

[nyankoframe]

Hello nyankoframe,

I would like to thank you for your interest in opportunities at Microsoft and for taking the time to speak with us recently. We were impressed with your skills and background. I am happy to share with you that the results from your phone interview were successful and you will soon be formally invited to our interviews in Hong Kong the week of October 23rd. We are currently working on the travel arrangements, and will contact you with more details as soon as we have the arrangements confirmed. Thank you for your patience.

It will be interesting for me to travel to Hong Kong. I don't think I've ever been there before. :P

I'm not going to be over-confident and say that I'll definitely get through this round of in-person interviews. I need to prepare a lot more than I did for the phone interview, and prepare myself mentally too for the stress of having so many rounds of interviews and facing a lot of challenging questions. In a way, it's like Worlds or AUDC though, at least in terms of maintaining energy level. ^_^;

*buries self in laptop*

Comments

Re: Congrats

[nyankoframe.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how many rounds there are but I heard it can be over 2 days of interviews, so perhaps 3 rounds (plus lunch interview) per day?

Thanks for the advice. :) I'll be sure to enjoy the trip as well!

Re: Congrats

[donky.livejournal.com]

Well, the fact they are flying you over there means they would be putting you through all of the interviews. But likely, you arent the only candidate, they might be flying all the potential candidates around the region to a centralized area to facilitate the interviews.

But either way, hey you got a free holiday (from certain aspects). Haha. They should pay for your expenses man (including food, and transport bills). In short, nothing should come out of your own poket.. :P

Re: Congrats

[nyankoframe.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they mentioned that on the MS Jobs blog. It will be centralized for different regions.

Hehehe. I'll wait and see what arrangements they come up with first though. :P