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In this case I am the only American to voluntarily move to a radioactive fallout zone in Japan immediately after the Tohoku earthquake where I studied computer
by xigency 12y ago
In this case I am the only American to voluntarily move to a radioactive fallout zone in Japan immediately after the Tohoku earthquake where I studied computer science at Japan's only school dedicated exclusively to the field. So while it is nice to hear how Google does their text-to-speech from a young employee, I do understand Markov models and Mel frequency coefficients well enough and have done my own interesting research working in a CS lab setting. I could care less if they hired me, I thought it was rude that I traveled 10,000 miles around the world and survived to be shoved out the door.
This was also coming after resigning from another company where I was treated terribly after moving from Chicago to southern California.
And that's really beyond the point. Fog Creek Software in New York City does an excellent job of treating their employees well, both interviewing and starting, and maybe that's something only offered by smaller companies, but I think an interviewee for a software job should be treated with a little bit more personal respect.
- droopyEyelids 12y agoAnd there you've experienced the best that Large Enterprise life has to offer for worker bees. Working for an employer is inherently dehumanizing. You are considered a resource of the company, not a unique individual. The larger the company, the stronger this effect.
- tonyedgecombe 12y agoIt's not just employees, Google and other large enterprises treat their customers in the same way.
- hueving 12y ago>In this case I am the only American to voluntarily move to a radioactive fallout zone in Japan immediately after the Tohoku earthquake No offense, but that's frankly irrelevant to an interviewer. You can't expect someone to waste a part of their day to stroke your ego when their task is to evaluate you and see if you can make it in the company.
- xigency 12y agoIt's just a huge red flag to me that the employees of a massive international company could be so globally unaware looking at the dates and locations of things printed on my resume to not ask a single question about it. Furthermore, Google might just be looking to hire a massive number of low-level Java developers and have a need to make them write bubblesort and FizzBuzz over and over, but I am someone who is a Java compiler writer, so I thought things might have lined up better. And at this point, I am not concerned about my ego so much as having a way to support myself. I didn't start programming when I was 10 to make a million dollars, I did it because I wanted to know how things worked. Now I might as well work at the pizza factory down the street so long as I have a place to live.
- woah 12y agoNot trying to challenge you on your various experiences, but you sound somewhat annoying to work with. Congratulations on being such a smart, accomplished, and worldly human being.
- jedanbik 12y agoAre you still in the market for a job? Send me an email, it's in my profile. I won't get back to you right away because of the holidays and such, but I'm intrigued none the less.
- juliangregorian 12y agoI mean, most reasonably well-off people go abroad during or after college studies and this experience doesn't really sound that remarkable other than the fallout zone. Did you develop any interesting biological mutations?
- 001sky 12y agoNice comment. Anyone can be an ass. It is fascinating though that alot of people act like one. Yourself included.
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- xigency 12y agoNo, I took iodine pills. I studied phonetics in a language lab and volunteered with other international students at a local elementary school, among other things.