Simply put, one of the most cheerful songs I've ever heard. The song makes me happy, and I found that today when I came in to office in a very bad mood. I felt like the day is gonna go downhill from the start and now I feel it's not actually so bad :-)

And I'm back

I've spent a lot of time on wordpress, but I missed the features and capabilities of bloggy, so I'm back!

i've moved

I've moved to this page for now, till i sort out how to post without loggin on to the blog.

red green blue yellow - part 2

Okay, so it was not like kargil, nor like nam, but more like the episode of mahabharat-without-the-a-in-the-end (I don't like to add the 'a' at the end, sounds so english) where duryodhan's bro dusshyasan was pulling draupadi's saree, slowly-slowly, hauley-hauley....just to eat up some more minutes into the episode.

It took almost one hour for the interviwer to find out that I am not a rocket-scientist, but a software engineer. Heck if I was one, I would be writing some complex code to make a spaceship fly to pluto, inflate it up and make it a planet again (I'm so disappointed for all the dogs who had been named pluto only to be found out some decades later that it has been relegated to the dwarf community).

How dare he ask me answers to the questions without giving me access to google? I'm sure he doesn't knows that a good part of India's IT revenues are possible only because of his company. He should feel proud about it, and that indirectly makes me his client. And graahak toh maai-baap hota hai. So they should've treated me like gawd, you know.

Confession # 1 - People in google are so cheer-ful, good looking and so happy. They might've used their own "perfecto" search engine to employ them. But then how come they called me for the interview? Some error, I tell you these testers don't test the application properly and then all you get is garbage data (read:people like me).

Confession # 2 - I suck, I suck at writing the most perfect-est, least memory consuming & most optimized code. I can't do that. Its hard for me to write a program which works, e.g. which adds two numbers, and they want me to write it in such a way that it uses only 3 bytes of memory or something like that.

Confession # 3 - the GOOGLE-PLEX is a cool place. I "so" want to be there, may be next time.

So long people, I'll drown in my own sweat as the AC on my head is not working for now....

red green blue yellow

After 5 interviews, 5 offers and 1 decision, I am ready to move back to Mumbai.

Sounds good? Not even close...

Today, I have an interview in one firm, which I love, I worship and I can't dream of being there. Any guesses which is that company? Well keep trying, you might want to "google" it...

If it would have been any other company, I wouldn't have done much preperation as I believe the more you study the more confused you are. But since two days all I can think of is the interview, it kind of gives me the goose-bumps.

I mean, lets face the facts here. I'm no scientist, I'm not a IIT-ian, or even NIT-ian or even REC-ian (which proves that i'm good for nothing)... I do not know the answers to any question on Operating Systems, I'm literally a sitting duck in a Data-structures interview and finally, I do not look so good that any HR dudess would give me 10 out of 10. So what are my chances of getting thru the interview? NIL...

And I should be happy about it, right? Coz all I need to do is to be myself, go in there.... look around, see things and tell my grand-children that "I once went to the _OO_LE-PLEX". And if the stories about free-food and casual atmosphere are indeed true, then I might sip a few cokes and eat some chilli-chicken (with green chillies, mind you!) and come out alive.

I just went through the _LAT, its an aptitude paper that people need to solve while going through the recruitment process. The paper's really cool, it asks questions for which I can't even search the answers, they're just so "out of this world". I would be really happy if they'd reject me in the 1st round (I've heard there are about 6 rounds of interview) and kick me out of my misery. And then I can happily edit this post and write about my experience.

I've prepared for few questions just to make sure I don't embarras myself, and others who think I can somehow get thru all the rounds and make it to "Charlie's Grill". So long my frenz, keep reading and you'd be throughly entertained...

And yes, remember. Don't be EVIL

can't think of any title...

what do i write about? my mind's just too cluttered to write anything. will do it later.... too many things in my mind right now...i need some counseling

confused...

You have a very tasty choco-bar, but with nuts (which you don't eat).... And a candy, which looks good from outside, you're sure it would taste good...but you can't have it now... or a small kiss-me toffee (which you like the most) in your hand, but not forever.

What would you have?

I'm still thinking...

what is it?

Is the sun coming out of clouds or clouds starting to spread their dark reign over me?