The people in the office were friendly. The office space is bright and open, with no cubicle walls to hide behind. They seemed to be looking to hire only experienced people who can jump in and start, rather than training junior people.

The first interview was entirely technical, with questions about C and C++, and actually writing short programs. There were no HR questions about strengths and weaknesses.

No question was really unexpected. I was asked about malloc versus new, allocating memory for two-dimensional arrays, and the use of static and const.

The programming tasks included things like finding the missing element in a sequence of numbers, and afterwards, the efficiency of my code in Big O (and whether there is a more efficient algorithm).