mdwrigh2

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   by mdwrigh2 16y ago

   So, to be fair to Google, I was not once asked anything like the train question nor was I asked to write a binary search in C then to read it out over the phone. I did implement a few things in Google docs, which is kind of ugly, but it was
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   by mdwrigh2 16y ago

   At least this summer, that's not true. They pay a relocation bonus that's more than enough to fly you out and back for the summer, as well as ship whatever you need out with you. The lack of corporate housing is kind of unfortunate, but the
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   by mdwrigh2 16y ago

   Having done the internship application process this year, I believe that's the one he's talking about, yes. It basically asks you to rate skills on things relevant to Google, and give location preferences and such. I don't think it was opti
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   by mdwrigh2 16y ago

   My process was the exact opposite. I did my two technical interviews back-to-back on a friday afternoon (4-6pm EST, so late in the day), and had been accepted to the applicant pool within the hour, with a host matching interview being setup
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   by mdwrigh2 16y ago

   I got caught up a month or two ago in the JSON parser and just kind of dropped it for other projects. It's unfortunate, because I feel like I was learning a lot, but some of the exercises in the chapter can be a bit unclear, and altogether
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   by mdwrigh2 16y ago

   I would pay for this. While Rails development stuff is useful, I feel like there are a _lot_ of resources out there for it on the web. This isn't so true for Mac development in particular, at least to my knowledge.
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   by mdwrigh2 16y ago

   I don't think he's suggesting that they _should_ default to lack confidence, but rather that many are very self-conscious about it, so it's probably even more difficult for him. Hence, his performance is even more impressive.
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   by mdwrigh2 16y ago

   Unfortunately, since your phone has an SDHC slot, you're going to be limited to the 32GB card. Hopefully phones will begin supporting the SDXC standard, which goes to 2TB cards, but the largest I've seen so far have been 128GB and they're u
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   by mdwrigh2 16y ago

   Sorry about that, I've updated it to be a microSDHC card now. I clearly wasn't paying enough attention with my original link.
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    by mdwrigh2 16y ago

    You can get at least 32GB on most of the phones (plus internal storage ranging from 512MB to 4GB). Some of them may support SDXC, meaning you can go beyond 32GB (I know there are 64GB cards for purchase, probably larger ones for insane pric
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    by mdwrigh2 16y ago

    Thanks dloft, I appreciate the response. I know you can't really answer why _I_ got rejected, I was just curious if there was something in particular they were looking for. Applying to companies and getting rejected tends to give very littl
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    by mdwrigh2 16y ago

    I'd recommend putting a link in your post. Obviously, we can search, but it's always nice to have it easily available :-) Edit: Here's a link to the tripadvisor jobs page http://www.tripadvisor.com/careers/jobs_engineering But I can't see
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    by mdwrigh2 16y ago

    Nor is it in his profile
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    by mdwrigh2 16y ago

    If you don't mind me asking, what exactly are you looking for in candidates? I applied with what I felt like was a fairly strong resume (two years working for a RoR shop, a summer doing research on create a javascript security sandbox via W
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    by mdwrigh2 16y ago

    Android 3.2 - Apple Okay, so maybe apples aren't your stereotypical dessert...
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    by mdwrigh2 16y ago

    I don't think he was commenting on his usage of "its" vs. "it's" (which is actually correct), but rather that it's ambiguous which item "it" is referring to -- Ragel or Ry's.
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    by mdwrigh2 16y ago

    Agreed, it's really unfortunate. I've been planning a trip out to the valley area for awhile now, but I just can't make the finances line up for me. Such is the life of a college student though, I suppose.
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    by mdwrigh2 16y ago

    Given that they were advertising for "rockstarninjas", I suspect it was a bit tongue-in-cheek.
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    by mdwrigh2 16y ago

    According to US News [1], it's ranked 17th which is decent, but not great. On the other hand that ranking is for graduate schools though, which takes into account things like citations of research published, which is less important at the u
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    by mdwrigh2 16y ago

    I'm curious how this item got 10 upvotes, yet the link submitted doesn't even work.
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    by mdwrigh2 16y ago

    Are you sure that's a syntax error? I'd probably catch that during typechecking... :)
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    by mdwrigh2 16y ago

    I'd argue there is a certain notion of fuzzing with proofs. Say I have a proof claiming that a certain function is monotonic. Fuzzing, in this case, is throwing a bunch of numbers at the function and checking to see if it's actually monoton
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    by mdwrigh2 16y ago

    Do you have any recommendations if you're working on a Linux platform? This is purely out of curiosity. I'll stick to my standbys of Vim and a terminal window.
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    by mdwrigh2 16y ago

    I asked a couple weeks ago and they didn't even look at my resume before telling me no, so perhaps it's location. Even still, I'd rather they say that, than that they aren't taking interns. Perhaps it was just a question of my timing though
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    by mdwrigh2 16y ago

    Unfortunately, it appears they are not looking for interns :-(
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    by mdwrigh2 16y ago

    I believe they're attempting to do this by separating some of the apps from the Android framework so that they can update them independently. Unfortunately, since Android is just so different from device to device, it'd be incredibly diffic
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    by mdwrigh2 16y ago

    It's incredibly strange to see this on the front page given I was doing research with him last semester and ended up taking this semester off due to a massive course load. Looks like I left just a bit too early, could've got myself on the H
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    by mdwrigh2 16y ago

    I agree, and actually have open sourced my LaTeX resume in case anyone wants to use bits and pieces of it: https://github.com/mdwrigh2/resume
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    by mdwrigh2 16y ago

    I won't say it's common, but it isn't all that unusual in the US either, at least among my group of friends. I came in with only 20-something hours and was on the low end (really focued on my math, finished all the necessary credits for my
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    by mdwrigh2 16y ago

    Having looked at their portfolio, I'd be interested in talking to their in in-house recruitment agency. Do you know how someone could go about contacting them?