If you follow my Twitter, I may have already given away the ending to this! But as a continuation from my first round, here is my experience for my second (final) on-site with Google two weeks ago. What Did I Do To Prep? Things were a little hectic with the end of Extreme Blue and our trip ...
Randy Pausch's Last Lecture was, and remains, the most moving video I have found on the internet. It's about how to achieve your dreams, but more than that - how to live your life. The thing is, I don't really seem to have the kind of dreams he had. So from time to time I think ...
Having admitted that I seek out a high level of stress, it's timely that I have, once again, gone way past the level of stress that I like to operate and hit the "woah this is damaging to my productivity" bit. I wrote before about How to be Crazy Busy Without Losing Your Mind and ...
I have the dubious distinction of being the intern, who on my self evaluation, had the biggest (positive) different between how my team rated me, and how I rated myself. I gave myself all average marks, bar one (initiative, +1). My 3 teammates evaluated me, and I only had one average mark, total, so I ...
For those of you who didn't know (or work it out), this is where I interviewed last week. It went well, I think - at least I feel like I did the best I could and whatever happens that will be helpful. I agreed to an NDA, so I can't write about the questions that they ...
My friends and some of my colleagues have been mocking me for "outsourcing my life". I don't think that expression is accurate though - it's more that I've been outsourcing details in order to enjoy life more (and achieve more). For me, it's all about leverage. How can I leverage myself in order to do ...
For my interview this week, I was sent a list of things to prep. One of them was sorting algorithms. The best way for me to remember and understand them is to code them, and I decided to go through the list on Wikipedia and code them in Java - even the recursive ones. I think ...
The other day I was having lunch with some other interns, and they were discussing their GPA. It made me question what I was doing, surrounded by 20-22 year-olds who think that a GPA is a measure of achievement and/or a defining characteristic. I mean, to participate in the conversation should I calculate my GPA? ...
Ages and ages ago, I wrote about not having imposter syndrom anymore. I wrote about how being a programmer was an accident, but a happy one. I give talks (one next week in fact) on how great it is to code. But this evening, I was trying to prep for this interview I have coming up ...
The other week I had a phone interview for what I thought was my dream job. In the days before, I realized that was the kind of thing I'd been doing. And then, I waited. Meanwhile, work was going so-so. My computer broke - again - so I lost a day and a half on my ...
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