interview in google

This was very exciting!!!!

After clearing 3 telephonic interviews I was called for face to face round in Google, Hyderabad (India). It was exactly 1 month back.. The profile was related to Linux, Networking and troubleshooting. I loved the way they take interview.. e.g. instead of questions like:

• what is samba? how to setup samba?
  

they were asking

• when do you setup samba?

So the idea behind every questions was to check how do I think, what are the ways of solutions I know. Some other questions for your reference are

1. A user is not connecting to internet, how will you troubleshoot the problem?
2. Number of ways of installing 500 new machines? what is the time required to setup these machine? which is the fastest way?
   
3. What are pros and cons of network installation and kick-start?
4. Difference between firewall and proxy, some scenario where these are useful
5. DMZ
6. VPN
7. cloud computing etc..

I faced 2 video conferencing rounds and a face to face round. It was good.

The atmosphere and view inside google office was awesome.. as expected.. :)
The accommodation was excellent.

I enjoyed the stay and interview a lot. After 10/15 days I got a diplomatic mail from google like..
"interviewers are impressed with your knowledge but the current job profile is not best match for me, so we'll get back to you as soon as there is opening related to your profile"

Anyways, it was a great feeling to visit Google for an Interview. I hope I'll make it next time. :)

Gmail was down for 2.5 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can you believe it guys????
Many would say am i kidding or what.. But this is true.

Gmail went offline for 2.5 hours on Tuesday, around at 2.00pm(Indian time). 'Gmail' one of the most popular email service in the world which has 110 million users.
"The outage itself lasted approximately two and a half hours from 0930 GMT. We know that for many of you this disrupted your working day. We're really sorry about this ... our engineers are still investigating the root cause of the problem," said Acacio Cruz, Gmail site reliability manager.

This affected most of the gmail users throughout the world, especially users from India & Europe.

Google has apologized for this mess. Many users reflected about this mess on twitter

For more information click, here.

T-Mobiles launched G1: The Google phone

T-Mobiled launched Google phone G1 in September 2008. It’ll start a new era of mobile technology. i.e. open source mobile phones.

It has many cool features like HTML browser, 3mega pixel camera, compas view etc. I am waiting for this phone to be launched in India. Its price is much less than i-phone

You can go through following links for more info.

http://cnettv.cnet.com/9742-1_53-50003826.html

http://cnettv.cnet.com/9742-1_53-50003826.html