Great to know. Thanks. On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 7:26 AM, Boris Strandjev <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hey Marcos, > In fact I am doing internship in Google right in the moment. > I did not get invited to work in Google straight away. I applied in the > ordinary way. But taking into account that I have performed onsite and also > that I am already senior mine interviews were really short. > I just had two 45 minutes interviews, nothing onsite and was invited for > internship. So I really do think my performance helped me in my application. > > > But there is another reason t ostrive for the best places - this way you > get to see Google offices (in my case they were two). And once you see them > you will try even harder to get accepted for work in Google :) > > Cheers, > Boris > > 2010/4/23 Marcos Vinícius Soares <[email protected]> > >> Hey Boris, >> >> Great story. Were you invited to work at google? >> >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Paul Smith <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> That's amazing! The picture of you scribbling out algorithms whilst >>> the kid next to you is whooping about their latest frag... awesome :) >>> Congratulations for advancing under such duress! >>> >>> There must be more good stories like this out there :) >>> >>> Paul Smith >>> >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Boris Strandjev <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > I can tell you the story of how i got to the finals 2008. I did the >>> > qualification in Prague, Czech Republic where I was on a vacation. Then >>> I >>> > did the first round in my home city - Sofia, the capitol of Bulgaria. >>> Then I >>> > went to another vacation in our seaside and made the second round on a >>> bench >>> > in the famous Bulgarian sea resort Slanchev Briag. The third round that >>> > qualified me for the semifinals I did in a really small computer club >>> in the >>> > cute town of Primorsko, again at the sea side with several dozen >>> screaming >>> > teenagers playing Counter Strike around. My semifinals were in Zurich >>> from >>> > where I qualified, obviously for Mountain View near San Francisco. I >>> > competed also there. >>> > >>> > So that totals to 6 different places in which I competed. Is this >>> better >>> > story? >>> > >>> > Cheers, >>> > Boris >>> > >>> > 2010/4/21 Paul Smith <[email protected]> >>> >> >>> >> I'm going to have a very interesting qualification round for this >>> >> year's CodeJam. >>> >> >>> >> I live in England, and play a card game called Magic: The Gathering. >>> >> There's a Grand Prix, which is a large open competition, in Lyon in >>> >> France on the weekend of the 8th and 9th of May. I'm going to the >>> >> Grand Prix as part of my stag do (I'm getting married in August). >>> >> >>> >> This means that for the duration of the qualification round I'll be in >>> >> a foreign country playing a card game tournament. Somehow I will try >>> >> to find a computer that I can compete from, an internet connection I >>> >> can rely on, and enough time to answer the CodeJam questions in >>> >> between rounds of the tournament. >>> >> >>> >> Does anyone have a better qualification story than that? >>> >> >>> >> Paul Smith >>> >> >>> >> [email protected] >>> >> >>> >> -- >>> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups >>> >> "google-codejam" group. >>> >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> >> [email protected]<google-code%[email protected]> >>> . >>> >> For more options, visit this group at >>> >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. >>> >> >>> > >>> > -- >>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups >>> > "google-codejam" group. >>> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> > [email protected]<google-code%[email protected]> >>> . >>> > For more options, visit this group at >>> > http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. >>> > >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "google-codejam" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]<google-code%[email protected]> >>> . >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. >>> >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "google-codejam" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<google-code%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "google-codejam" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-code%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. 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