I've been contacted by their recruiters every 6 months or year for the past 6 or 7 years. Finally I was in the right place in my career to actually interview there, so I agreed. The first step was a phone interview. The recruiter suggested a whole lot of studying material. I kinda skimmed "Programming Interviews Exposed", but I don't think it really made much of a difference at any point in the interview process. I feel like you either know your CS fundamentals or you don't and reading a book about them at the last minute isn't going to help much. Maybe I'm wrong. This is my best tip for interviewing!: don't just discount your first answer because you think it's "too obvious"! It very well might be the right answer, and now you'll be lost searching for an even better answer that doesn't exist! If you think it's not right, just say "there might be a better way to do this, but I'm just brainstorming", and then explain what you're thinking. If there's a better way to do it, they'll let you know. I made this mistake twice in my interviews. First there was a 45 minute phone interview. It was just two questions, one coding, and one more conceptual. It was pretty straightforward. The coding one was just something basic like implementing a binary search with a few tweaks. Despite all the scary things people say, I felt like the in-person interview wasn't especially difficult, but I probably just lucked out with the group of interviewers I pulled. My friend told me he knows a ton of really smart people who didn't pass the in-person, so I shouldn't take it personally if I didn't either. That helped me relax and realize I just had to go in there and do my best and see what happened. I wasn't really nervous then and the interview mostly just felt like I was discussing interesting problems with co-workers. I think being relaxed really helped me get the job, so if you can... chill out. :) Then things got really boring. At this point, it had been six weeks since I first started talking to the recruiter. Within three days, I was told that I'd passed the hiring committee. And after the I didn't get the offer for FOUR AND A HALF MORE WEEKS. That's 2.5 months total. The recruiter was very nice and apologetic about the whole process, but I feel like they need to do something to speed it up. It was a frustrating experience, knowing I'd passed the hiring committee and was probably hired, but then things just kept getting held up for weird reasons passing through all the other processes. When the offer finally came, however, it was a good offer and I accepted immediately.