Well, the interview itself went okay, I guess. Was asked about 5 programming questions, no personal questions. Whee. Had some trouble with the n-ary tree algorithms (getNextNode, getPrevNode), but meh… got it to work eventually. I think my implementation (using a linked list to store the children) was a bad idea. If it was Java, I guess I would have used a Vector for simpler access and whatnot. Whee. The other stuff seemed fairly straightforward.

Walked around New York for a couple hours. This city is so huge… still quite overwhelming. It doesn’t seem as scary as it did last night though… maybe the sunlight helps. Went to Central Park, walked around for a while, looked at Times Square. Whee. Will walk around more tonight when I look for dinner. Mark suggested I get pizza, so I think I will do just that.
Signed up for an official city tour tomorrow… figured a guide would be much better at showing me places that I could do myself. The trip also goes to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, so it should be interesting.

Still amazingly impressed with the hotel. The bathroom is HUGE… I think this is the first time in years that I’ve incredibly looked forward to my nightly shower. Yay.

I think I’ll pay for internet for 24 hours, starting tomorrow night, so I can check-in to my flight tomorrow afternoon. That means I’ll be online then… although I guess since I won’t be posting this entry until then, so writing this is kinda pointless. Wheee!

Edit: Mark, you give good advice. I am now full of the most incredible spinach and mushroom pizza I have ever eaten, along with an amazingly rich hunk of tiramisu. I can’t decide which is better: that, or the broiled and grilled chipped beef with potato pancakes (with applesauce, of course!) I had for lunch today. Why is NY food so good?
I’m feeling very, very happy right now. You know what? I went in there today and I did my best. I am happy with my performance on all the interview questions. The company seems like a remarkable place to work. Best case, I get hired. Worst case, I did my best and I’m happy with it… and I get a free trip to NY, all expenses paid (including that incredible pizza I just had tonight). And I got practice for future interviews. I went in there today not expecting anything… not worrying about if I get this or not… I went in there just intending to do my best and be me. If they like me, great. If not, oh well, there will be other opportunities later. I am confident in my skills and proud of what I’ve accomplished.

And holy shit… Times Square at night. Enough said. There will be pictars.
I should sleep soon so I can wake up for the 9 AM city tour.