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Another Phone Interview

Posted on January 4, 2014 by milad

In nearly one hour I will be having my third, and hopefully final, phone interview. This one will be conducted with a software engineer from Google Zurich office. By the way, I have been busy prepping so I totally forgot to tell you all that my work location has been decided at last. It is…

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LiveJournal

Posted on December 26, 2013 by milad

I can’t say why, precisely, but LiveJournal has never truly held any attraction for me. Maybe its the user interface, but I think its mostly that I want to have full control of my stuff — and that’s simply not done in any online, managed service. The fact that it is censored in Iran also…

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Interview Question #1

Posted on December 12, 2013 by milad

So, as I mentioned before, I am going to post questions I think will be useful in interviewing applicants to a developer position in an average software development company. Here goes the first one. Question We see a class named AbstractShape with a method `redraw()` on it, with a given behavior already implemented. One of…

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On where to go …

Posted on December 12, 2013 by milad

So I got a letter saying no positions are open at the Sydney office. After closely evaluating each of my opportunities in the Europe, I have now reached the conclusion that my next best choices are Zurich and Dublin. But I have yet to know whether or not it is actually going to happen. Fingers…

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My First Interview

Posted on December 12, 2013 by milad

About a week ago, I conducted my first interview. It was important to me from multiple points. For starters, it was a nice change to be on the other side of the table when  going to the interview. Secondly, it kind of validated my status in the company for myself. I have been in the…

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Second Phone Screen

Posted on December 10, 2013 by milad

I got my answer in about three weeks. A rather long period of time, based on the normal time reported by other people. But it was good news, so I wasn’t too mad. What had happened was that apparently it was Google recruitment season finale and my recruiter was swamped. So, anyway, I got good…

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First Phone Screen

Posted on October 20, 2013 by milad

Okay. I had my first phone screen with Google on October 16th. Unfortunately, the phone connection broke down five times and the interviewer (who, incidentally, was called “Anonymous Iguana” in the Google Doc shared with me for the purpose of the interview) had to postpone it. My recruiting coordinator wanted to reschedule for a week…

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Preparing for phone screening

Posted on October 12, 2013 by milad

As I have previously mentioned, I am currently preparing myself for an interview with Google. To that end, I am bringing my data structures and algorithms knowledge up to scratch by practicing all the important bits from CLRS. To help other people who are, like me, going through the same phase, here is a link…

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Job Opportunity

Posted on September 25, 2013 by milad

I was recently the happy receiver of a phone call from a recruiter at Google. They had found me through my LinkedIn profile, and were somewhat impressed by my resumé, as it were. I am now offered the chance to take the first stage of the interview, the dreaded phone screening. I am going to…

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The One-Footed Dancer

Posted on July 30, 2013 by milad

Years ago, I was inspired by a dance I saw on “So You Think You Can Dance” concerning people with cancer to write this. Last night, I revised it and decided to put it up here: The One-Footed Dancer This is a poem of no glories It’s just one of those plain old stories It…

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