[구직일기] Company G - Software Engineer

29 JAN, 2019 

My internship which I've got a month after I came back from England is almost finished.

Actually I started this internship to experience the international financial company's system and work process as the preparation for full time job of future, I had a lot of lessons not only developing or IT jobs but also cultural and communication stuff. And thanks to this company I guess I cannot get into non-global company anymore, the environment of this company was quite impressive and nice to me, I cannot give up those kind of thing when I regard of my real full time job LOL (Though I think I'm not that suitable for financial company......HO.... I have interest in coding and creating something dynamic so guess I have to go for IT company....)

Anyway as the end point of this internship is coming, the inner devil which is the anxious mind when I'm not working starts to dominate my brain. XD WHY DO I FEEL SO NERVOUS WHEN I'M TAKING BREAK??????

So I visit the career site of my dream company, and luckily they were hiring a person for their software engineer position at that time.   BRAVO!

Through the long time I completed the CV and application AND..... SUBMITTED....!!!!!!!

Software Engineer

Seoul, South Korea

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.

Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages.

Experience working with two or more from the following: web application development, Unix/Linux environments, mobile application development, distributed and parallel systems, machine learning, information retrieval, natural language processing, networking, developing large software systems, and/or security software development.

Preferred qualifications:

Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science or other technical related field.

Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: C++, Java, C and Python.

Experience in a wide variety of projects utilizing natural language processing, artificial intelligence, data compression, machine learning and search technologies.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

About the job

G's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to G’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

G aspires to be an organization that reflects the globally diverse audience that our products and technology serve. We believe that in addition to hiring the best talent, a diversity of perspectives, ideas and cultures leads to the creation of better products and services.

G is and always will be an engineering company. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on millions, if not billions, of users. At G, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on massive scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From G Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, Social to Local, G engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software.

Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.

Work closely with product management team to ensure we're building the best products.

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29 JAN, 2019 

I'VE GOT AN EMAIL FROM THE RECRUITER!!!!!!!!!

Oh my fucking god I didn't expect they would contact me so soon like this!

I was with the interns of other teams after I finished work. My phone alert me about the email from the company and when I opened it the recruiter asked me to choose the proper day and time to call as they want to talk me about my career and the processes of their recruiting.

Of course! of course I know it doesn't mean I went into them THOUGH it's really enough to make me excited !!!

Hopefully I could go to the next step, and my current job won't do matter about the future steps of recruiting.

LET'S SEE; maybe I could come back with crying face HaHaHA.... 

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12 FEB, 2019

Finally it's the D-DAY

Literally my heart beat so fast it's about to be exploded from just after I woke up uhh maybe from yesterday. LOL And the thing I most worried was my lunch time is normally started at 12:10pm, though I reserve the call at 12:00 as I thought I could leave the desk little early.

As my expectation that 10 minutes didn't matter much, so I could've took the call without any problem.

By the way the calling was quite simple and not that long it finished in 15mins. Even we called in Korean not in English.

The recruiter briefly asked me about my details and previous experiences(the internship and trainee course I did before) but I felt she doesn't care about so much. 

I can easily guess the main point that she wanted was the quizzes about some algorithms.

Here're the questions she asked me:

1. The worst time complexity of Merge sort?

2. The worst time complexity of Quick sort?

3. The worst time complexity of searching Hash table?

4. Which tree is more proper to handle with BFS algorithm?

5. How will you calculate 2 to the power of 24?

(There was few more questions but I cannot remember now, I was really nervous so my brain couldn't store them fully.)

Anyway I correct 5 or 6 of 7 or 8 questions then the quiz time was finished.

She said it would be better to take some time for studying algorithm under her guide for a month before I have the real coding interview via hangout. And I truly agreed to her. I need time for studying desperately. 

SOOOO she said she will send me some guide documents and information to help me prepare the interview and after a month she will check my improvement then decide if I can go to next step or not. (According to her if I fail their interview, I cannot apply for Google whilst next 1 year.)

I answered it might be great idea and thanks for her advice.

This was the end of my first HR screening of Google, it's not that scary and she's really kind to me. I WILL try really really hard from now to pass the online interview.

WORK HARD MYSELF