The original reason I started looking around for a web hosting company actually came online now. Head on over to http://www.softwareinterview.com to check out the new version of the really old questions page which still generates many emails in my very rarely monitored inbox at USC.

This is a good place to tell at least the story of how that page came about. When I was doing my graduate school in Ohio State, I had a few roommates who were going for interviews in Mircosoft. (Yours truly was into research, see…). They were poring over a bunch of questions collected from other people from Ohio State who had interviewed at Microsoft. I took that and added the questions that my roommates were asked and it has been growing since then. For the record, I never interviewed at Microsoft but too many of my friends have. And four of my roomates from Ohio State and USC worked at Microsoft.

Of course, if you read “How do you move Mount Fuji” you will see my name mentioned in the book. The author William Poundstone did actually call me and talk to me about what sort of reaction I get for the website. What you read in the book is true. I think I maintained the site more out of academic interest than anything else. Intellectual pursuits are what separates human from the animal :)

The new site runs on spanking new technology (okay! okay! new for me) of Ruby on Rails. I will write more about in another post.

It also provides an option to add questions instead of the emails people used to send me so do go ahead and fill in all those esoteric and arcane interview questions that you get asked in your interviews. Go ahead. Do it!