I was being interviewed for a summer internship with this title. They flew me up to Washington for an in-person group interview after a screening interview at my college, which I got through by handing a resume to a recruiter at the career fair. This screening interview was fairly simple, with one technical question and some questions about what I'd like to work on. Everything was paid for when I was up there: car, hotel, and food.

The in-person interview consisted of five rounds that lasted throughout either the morning or afternoon. There were two groups of interviewees from colleges across the country, and you spent about an hour with each interviewer. By the end, they told you on the spot if you'd passed or failed.

Each interview asked some type of technical question where you solved an algorithm. Everyone asked for a self-evaluation on how I thought I was doing at that stage in the interview.

The office where I interviewed was fairly interesting. One section had meeting rooms that all referenced video games, from Halo to Half-Life. There was also one of those Microsoft tablet tables with games on it, as well as an Xbox 360 running Halo. They served some food, but it wasn't worth remembering. There were breaks in between interviews where they very much discouraged discussing any of the questions being asked.

The technical questions were not too difficult. I came from a public school in California near the start of my junior year. By the end of the year, every type of question that was asked had been covered in class. They don't look for the absolute best answer, as long as it's not overly complicated.