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"Crap" - that's exactly what I am feeling like as I am writing this piece. I am not a God-sent CS major having the sole objective of saving this earth from people who don't know CS concepts.
While I did graduate with honors from a "Top 10" school, majoring in CS - I feel I am no where close (in CS terms, algorithms, Big Os) to most people who have put their comments here.
I have been working with C++ for last 5 years, but at a much higher level - mainly doing application development in C++ and VC++. Also, I have always worked in telecommunications domain, thus never got into situations where I had to deal with tons of data, search through that data, sort the data and do other "cool" things with it.
I have worked in 4 different companies - ranging from startups to mid-sized to Fortune 20 - in last 6 years (by choice, and willingly), and I must admit I have always been the "Rockstar" in the teams I have worked in. I don't know much in CS aspect of thing, really, but I am the guy who gets things done - by hook or by crook, or sometimes by fluke.
Now, I don't know what a certain Google recruiter saw in my resume, but I now have a phone screen scheduled with G next week. And I know already, I am totally going to get screwed. I am more of a "Software Developer" than a "Software Engineer" or "Computer Scientist". I understand and use object-oriented paradigm, all common design patterns, solid networking concepts - but hardly any core data structures like Graphs or Trees. Maybe Maps\Hashtables at times. So reading all this, I am already shitting in my pants, and I feel as if I am going to get raped come next Monday. Maybe I should just inform the recruiter that I am not in a position to take the interview, I don't know if that's rude or whether wasting someone's 45mins-1 hr is rude"r".
I don't blame Google for their interview process, the fact is they can afford it right now so why the heck not. All my life I wanted to work for Google, but looks like I just got a reality check... Pray for me guys, at least I can get a graceful denial...much better than people at Google thinking "what a pile of $hit this dude was"
Nov 3, 2010, 3:06:09 AM
Posted to Get that job at Google