Would love to help them out, if I can get an interview...
Send me an email(to my username @ gmail.com ) with your resume, and we can have a chat, and I can provide you with something akin to a reference if you like.
google.com/humans.txt
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Re: google.com/humans.txt
#62i was cofounder at a startup a long time ago, and wrote most of the backend code. i put a humans.txt in there, and updated it every time we had a new employee. then the CEO fired all the best engineers, and I decided to leave shortly after because sometimes in life you gotta let go. the company is still (miraculously) around these days, although all of the original engineers are long gone. the humans.txt is still acc…
Is it really that easy to miss an errant text file in the site directory? I'm so meticulous when it comes to code that you couldn't possibly get that past me.
Could be they found it but just never changed it. Maybe they thought it was amusing, or just didn't want to deal with it in code review.
Re: google.com/humans.txt
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
The best meritocratic way (i.e. not dependent on your CV too much) to get invited to an interview with Google is to be top 1000 in Google Code Jam. Study algorithms a lot, practice on CodeForces and TopCoder. If you work hard on it, in some year you will be on top of Google Code Jam. Recommendations is good to have but it won't help you to be successful on the interview. Practice algorithms a lot, ... I mean literall…
Do you have any suggestions how to practice algorithms?
If you want to do well on GCJ, practice GCJ. All the past contests are online.
Re: google.com/humans.txt
#64Why? Do you have so much spare time to waste on things like this?
Why are people so malicious to people who have spare time?
Re: google.com/humans.txt
#65Would love to help them out, if I can get an interview...
The best meritocratic way (i.e. not dependent on your CV too much) to get invited to an interview with Google is to be top 1000 in Google Code Jam. Study algorithms a lot, practice on CodeForces and TopCoder. If you work hard on it, in some year you will be on top of Google Code Jam. Recommendations is good to have but it won't help you to be successful on the interview. Practice algorithms a lot, ... I mean literall…
I've actually interviewed with them, before when I was in college. In all honesty, I used to be on the defensive side of things against technical interviews only because I got really nervous and my mind would go completely blank, especially this one time when a BigTechCo hiring manager asked me to sort a LinkedList without using additional space.
So after many rejections and rushed algorithms textbooks regurgitations, I decided to start somewhere my well-roundedness counted more than my algorithm implementation skills( a big awesome Fortune 20 company too) , and actually REALLY take my time to study the ins and outs of being a real World software engineer and ENJOY IT.
A year and a half later after graduation, I don't regret my decision at all. My problem-solving and implementation skills have improved tremendously, especially after I discovered Firecode.io, which takes a more pedagogical approach to interview prep than TopCoder or google CodeJam.
I live in Seattle and have a few acquaintances who are in tech at various companies(Google, FB, Amazon, MSFT..) . My interactions with Googlers have been very pleasant; they just seem to be very down to earth compared to other engineers I have encountered, in general. I am not in a rush, though. I am gainfully employed and like my job, so that also drive my job search to be largely serendipitous.
Re: google.com/humans.txt
#66http://www.gm.com/humans.txt I never would have guessed it. Disclaimer: I work at GM. It's probably not as terrible as you imagine. Any opinions are my own.
I work with the team that made that site! That is so funny that they put that in.
Re: google.com/humans.txt
#67Would love to help them out, if I can get an interview...
The best meritocratic way (i.e. not dependent on your CV too much) to get invited to an interview with Google is to be top 1000 in Google Code Jam. Study algorithms a lot, practice on CodeForces and TopCoder. If you work hard on it, in some year you will be on top of Google Code Jam. Recommendations is good to have but it won't help you to be successful on the interview. Practice algorithms a lot, ... I mean literall…
Where does the "top 1000" come from?
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have any suggestions how to practice algorithms?
If you want to do well on GCJ, practice GCJ. All the past contests are online.
Re: google.com/humans.txt
#70http://www.gm.com/humans.txt I never would have guessed it. Disclaimer: I work at GM. It's probably not as terrible as you imagine. Any opinions are my own.
I work with the team that made that site! That is so funny that they put that in.
Hey! I'm the dev leader of Team Blackbird. I never knew this actually got deployed.
AMA!