I heard a horrible story the other day - someone had been off work because they were seriously ill, and a week before they returned to work one of their colleagues called all her clients and said she was never coming back. Shocking, right? Bitchy! Horrifying. Disgusting behavior. Hurtful. The last thing you need. If my ...
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 ...
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