“An interview for a large company is always a free career advice.”

There is a lot of information over the internet about how to prepare for a technical interview, what one should know and how one should behave. But this knowledge is TOO abstract. It’s like… imagine if you had to learn every university subject before an exam because you don’t know what exam it was.

What’s more valuable are real stories and experience of people passed these examsinterviews. Was it Google or Microsoft, or maybe Zynga. What questions were asked (and what questions were not), what was the overall atmosphere of an interview, how long it was.

In this post I want to tell you about Zynga recruiting event in Moscow, about my personal experience, mistakes and what I learned.

This interview gave me a lot of experience, made me think about who I am and where I am going. No article about how to pass an interview can substitute real experience of going to an interview.

Here’s an image to keep you interested.

I didn’t know it was THAT hard to find a good AS3 developer in Russia. Looks like wherever you go you’ll meet a couple of people who know Flash. But their skill level is very low.

This post tells us how desperate some companies are. They are offering professional Java or C# programmers to learn AS3 and work for them.