Mihaela Muresan

Hmm i wonder how to start this....

Lately I got  some articles about  jobs and job interview and employers with their own  agenda....

First: It is interesting how a Google employee can be so arrogant regarding the job interview process Google has... thing is, in my opinion, they do not have a real job interview process and  every  person who does the interviews  does in fact what he/she wants... and all depends on "if he or she has or not a good or bad day".... and the line "call yourself a “10″ in Python, and we’ll have Guido van Rossum interview you" is total rubbish is like " whatever you do you are not good for us but if we are in good mood we  hire you".... WTF... that reminds me of some place i worked for almost 2 years... big corporation with huge ego and  stupid rules and more idiotic procedures... and most of all ppl who think to high about themselves but in fact they lave huge lacks of everything... and if some prick from Google  gets to tell better ppl than him that they are nothing  and he is the king just because he works at Google and they are not.... that does not looks good for Google...

Here is the article...  and  the comments are alot better than  the article...

http://allenc.com/2011/04/how-to-score-a-google-onsite-interview/

also i put here another article who shows us  how weird all the  hiring process in big companies can be ( in this case is about Google... but is same shit everywhere... )

http://ecarmi.org/writing/google-internship/


The best 2 articles  i rad this week are alot better than the Google guy one... and  those authors really touch the right  points in those articles...

First one tell us, from a team manager's view, why the interviewing ways from this days  fail to get us the right and also good employers we need in the companies ..... and he is right .... pls read this is very very interesting and good article in same time :)

http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/07/why-the-new-guy-cant-code/

One of the things i liked was at the end... the first from the 2 last extra article comments made by the author... where says that women are usually better than man in this... and  that made me feel good cos there are not to many guys who would recognize this... and i know on my own skin that a woman  has to be 3 times better than a guy to be considered  his equal... i will never  forget my first interview... it was me ... and another  20 guys for 1 job... and i got the job... but OMG  how much i studied for it... and how well i knew all the networking in Tanenbaum's  networking book... i still do...

Second article is about employers and their  lack of intelligence in motivating ppl who work for them... and lack of trust they have in those employees .... is sad but is true... they do not trust us and we do not trust them.. an they treat us bad and we look for other job... but what if  that would be totaly different?....

Here is the article.. enjoy it.... and maybe ( for the employers and employees) we all learn something

http://www.softwarequalityconnection.com/2011/05/i-like-my-it-budget-tight-and-my-developers-stupid/

I think that " not investing in our employees" is such very used thing in Romania this days... and is sad cos Romanian ppl have huge potential... but what good comes from that if our way of thinking and see things is same like the one  from 1800...

ok  this is it for tonight....