------better not to read this :-)-----too philosophical------------
When we are up to something we leave behind some other things which seems unimportant to us at that time. And when we are denied the thing which we are up to ,we obviously trail back some steps and take the other 'road not taken'. At times, the backward trail is so easy and simple. But in these easy cases, we would have contemplated the consequences and forthcomings well in advance. This is what we mean to be cautious or 'be prepared for everything' attitude.
But what do we do when we fail miserably? In a way upon which we haven't thought about an alternative .What runs in our mind when our desire lead us somewhere near a dead end, from where there is no coming back, because we were too weak to imagine the things to be ready with, in case of failures. Or May be we didn't want that thing to fail us so badly, because life seems so so meaningless, if that is not going to happen. When life goes meaningless and when we aren't prepared for such a vacuum so big as this, its better to sit alone, all alone and cry until we cry better .... :-(
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Thursday, August 20, 2009
My interview experience
DATE: 11th August 2009
COMPANY: HP
COLLEGE: PSG TECH, Coimbatore.
4:00pm
TECHNICAL ROUND:
Highly tensed.I asked myself, "What do u think u can do to impress them?".And only at that time I realized the need for a super human power is so inevitable. The gentleman who conducted the interview was excellent :)
He started the interview from the next second.
1.He gave a program and asked what is scope and life of a variable. How does static work? I answered this question terribly wrong. But then i said, am not sure about the answer.
2.Where are the global, local variables stored in memory? I managed to answer them.
3.Write a code for in-order traversal. I wrote the recursive solution.
4.He gave a binary tree and asked to write the in-order, pre-order ,post-order traversals?
5.What is balancing a binary tree? Since i was not sure i said i don't know. but he continued asking what is the complexity to search an element in a binary tree. I didn't knew this by heart so i calculated that in front of him.(log n). He continued in the same pace: does you formula work for a binary tree 89-78-67-54-47-32(skewed).i said no. Then can u guess what balancing a binary would mean? "the process of infusing optimality to the tree so that the no of steps to search an element is log n". i think he expected that answer so badly. "excellent" he said.(Some times, you end up cooking answers so well that they are more appealing than the learned ones, but very rarely) :)
6.Write a code to delete a node from a linked list. This time i gave him a reasonably good code. But he wasn't impressed. He said the code lacked naming constraints. I asked him for an other try. This time it was a fata-fat code :)
7.What is memory leak? answered.
8.I didn't answer the OS questions very well.
9.One last question: given an list of numbers. How do you find the second largest element, by traversing the list once. i thought 'never heard the question before. how difficult this is gonna be'. I took a paper and tried from the scratch. The solution was so easy to arrive. He was reasonably impressed.
10.You have anything to ask? I said I would love to work with hp and If I didn't meet your requirements, i would like to make sure that i will prepare myself in course of time if opportunity permits :) thank you....
After some five minutes results came.I was shortlisted for the next hr round. I was very happy and equally tensed.
5:00pm
HR ROUND
It went on very well since they concentrated on my project. It turned out an added advantage for me(My posts, while doing that project would reveal the reason).It lasted for 30 minutes.
10:45 pm
The results came and ten of them from my college including me were selected. Happy :)
(For detailed interrogations please mail me: anbu.myid@gmail.com)
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COMPANY: HP
COLLEGE: PSG TECH, Coimbatore.
4:00pm
TECHNICAL ROUND:
Highly tensed.I asked myself, "What do u think u can do to impress them?".And only at that time I realized the need for a super human power is so inevitable. The gentleman who conducted the interview was excellent :)
He started the interview from the next second.
1.He gave a program and asked what is scope and life of a variable. How does static work? I answered this question terribly wrong. But then i said, am not sure about the answer.
2.Where are the global, local variables stored in memory? I managed to answer them.
3.Write a code for in-order traversal. I wrote the recursive solution.
4.He gave a binary tree and asked to write the in-order, pre-order ,post-order traversals?
5.What is balancing a binary tree? Since i was not sure i said i don't know. but he continued asking what is the complexity to search an element in a binary tree. I didn't knew this by heart so i calculated that in front of him.(log n). He continued in the same pace: does you formula work for a binary tree 89-78-67-54-47-32(skewed).i said no. Then can u guess what balancing a binary would mean? "the process of infusing optimality to the tree so that the no of steps to search an element is log n". i think he expected that answer so badly. "excellent" he said.(Some times, you end up cooking answers so well that they are more appealing than the learned ones, but very rarely) :)
6.Write a code to delete a node from a linked list. This time i gave him a reasonably good code. But he wasn't impressed. He said the code lacked naming constraints. I asked him for an other try. This time it was a fata-fat code :)
7.What is memory leak? answered.
8.I didn't answer the OS questions very well.
9.One last question: given an list of numbers. How do you find the second largest element, by traversing the list once. i thought 'never heard the question before. how difficult this is gonna be'. I took a paper and tried from the scratch. The solution was so easy to arrive. He was reasonably impressed.
10.You have anything to ask? I said I would love to work with hp and If I didn't meet your requirements, i would like to make sure that i will prepare myself in course of time if opportunity permits :) thank you....
After some five minutes results came.I was shortlisted for the next hr round. I was very happy and equally tensed.
5:00pm
HR ROUND
It went on very well since they concentrated on my project. It turned out an added advantage for me(My posts, while doing that project would reveal the reason).It lasted for 30 minutes.
10:45 pm
The results came and ten of them from my college including me were selected. Happy :)
(For detailed interrogations please mail me: anbu.myid@gmail.com)
"THERE ARE AS MANY INSTANCES OF INTERVIEWS ,AS THERE ARE HUMAN TRAITS, RARELY PRODUCING TWINS"
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Saturday, August 1, 2009
face- mafia wars- book
one good game. now level 27 :) good to be a tyro. Wondering about the implementation strategy and why this game is so successful? Over 5 million playing daily.So is it every body wanted to be real life dons or atleast virtual dons? But for the don thing ,every body wanted to be somebody other than their present....Tats all the time i have...just 15 more exp points to reach level 28 :)
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