LOL, I was laughing when I read this

I walked into my first technical interview at Microsoft, and before I could say anything, the woman says, "You're in an 8x8 stone corridor." I blink and sit down.
Interviewer: "The prince of darkness appears before you."
Me: "You mean, like, the devil?"
Interviewer: "Any prince of darkness will do."
Me: "Ok."
Interviewer: "What do you do?"
Me: <pause> "Can I run?"
Interviewer: "Do you want to run?"
Me: Hmm... I guess not "Do I have a weapon?"
Interviewer: "What kind of weapon do you want?"
Me: "Um... something with range?"
Interviewer: "Like what?"
Me: "Uh... a crossbow?"
Interviewer: "What kind of ammo do you have?"
Me: <long pause> "Ice arrows?"
Interviewer: "Why?"
Me: <floundering> "Because the prince of darkness is a creature made of fire???"
Interviewer: "Fine... so what do you do next?"
Me: "I shoot him?"
Interviewer: "No... what do you do?"
Me: <blank stare>
Interviewer: "You WASTE him! You *WASTE* the prince of darkness!!"
Me: <completely freaked out and off my game> Holy crap... what have I gotten myself into.
She then tells me that she asks that question for two reasons. 1) Because she wants to know if the candidate is a gamer (which is apparently really important... please note: I'm not a gamer) and 2) because she wants her question to show up on some website. I hate to accommodate her, but this is definitely the weirdest interview question I've ever heard of.

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O dear god lol, i am thinking about getting into that area of things, didn't think i would need to imagine the interviewer asking questions like that!

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You're more with the Game Development? I think I should recommended you to try out XNA from Microsoft

Game Development Program Manager from Microsoft told me that playing around XNA is a good start for Microsoft the game development

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XNA = Xbox/DirectX New generation Architecture

In a way, Lee would be learning XNA via DirectX. I'm not sure how accurate Wikipedia is on this next part, but Wikipedia says the idea behind it is to unify several game development APIs to create a common framework.

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-- Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of what is now known as C++
For more quotes by Bjarne Stroustrup, check out http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#really-say-that.

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I'm not sure with that in particular, but the only thing that I know is that XNA is purposed to get more game developers into XBOX 360 game development

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So we stay on topic i cut the rest off and moved it to a new topic here... Just got a new book.

Feel free to continue...

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