Fear of loosing is the only bottleneck - The day you are ready to be penniless
Friday, April 8, 2022
Utterly Painful truths
Thursday, March 24, 2022
Tuesday, January 18, 2022
Interview Experience ( Pursuing youtube.com/interviewdose )
Note : I have not done much leetcode problems yet though I like this platform. I handpicked few types of questions and did but I revised data structures very well because of lack of time.
Amazon Interview :
Easy to Medium level questions
1st is Two coding question and if you give 100% optimized answer you are all set to go to onsite .
Onsite - Two coding second and fourth interview first one behavioral and third one was design
This was first interview with big tech org when I came to USA and realized you just need little bit of practice to clear the coding interviews ..
Design interview - One lady took my interview She mentioned that she was working in Facebook before and now she is working in Amazon as a Lead engineer . Never smiled, neither was friendly in the entire conversation she was looking with a foolish face to me through out the discussion !
( I didn't do well in last coding round neither got any hint from the interviewer. I knew I wouldn't clear as i didn't do well in last coding round ultimately result out and I didn't which was ok as expected, It was ok my first interview in usa )
Learning : You must know the tricks and techniques to solve a problem in a given time just data structures and fundamental won't help and never ever have the assumption that interviewer is going to help you (If he does help you, You are not the right fit anymore)
Google interview : Online coding in Google doc on a graph problem (Medium) ..
I did very well I copied the code tested after the interview and made sure of that my logic works. I am surprised to know the next day I didn't clear the first round I was really surprised why ..
I introspect what went wrong ! Neither the HR shared any feedback .. I remember this guy he didn't even tell his name ! didn't even introduced himself. He just pasted the question in google doc, I introduced myself, I didn't get any intro from him, asked him his name which he avoided, straight away asked me to explain the question he pasted and code if I understand the question he didn't spoke anything in entire interview process.. finally I started with my explanation, assumptions and gave him some naive and finally wrote the best solution I could.
After I am done with the code I asked him if he see anything that I didn't address .. He seem to have scanned the code said looks good and Finally he said we are almost 3 minutes away from 45minutes if I have any question for him . I asked a question about the role and project he is interviewing me for he said the first round is just a fitment test and he doesn't know much about he was just asked to take the interview .
Learning : He was not helpful and friendly but the biggest take away from here to me was You should be self sufficient to drive the interview process with mentioning some assumptions you may end up talking to people who might not be in a good mood.
Uber Interview :
It took almost two months for the total process to complete since the time I spoke to the first HR .
Questions were Easy to medium level leetcode.
Very First : online coder pad round ( I remember when I asked about some clarifications he discouraged me saying He want to see what I think and just write your assumptions and code in a positive way ). Finally I did good I wrote some test cases and proved my assumptions and answer are correct giving the most efficient approach I gave him another few approach to the given problem which he very much appreciated at end. I was immediately conveyed the other day that I did very well and will be brought for onsite ..
(Note there may not be a available position for you right at that moment so once you clear the interview they try to match/share your profile to different team With Uber and Google)
After around a month HR came back to me with a team/role to be interviewed for.
Finally I went to onsite ( Very prompt with reimbursing your expenses compared to my earlier amazon interview, booked flight and hotels all other arrangements done smoothly)
I met around 8 people during a full day long interview process
1st - Coding around an hour ( with two people )
2nd - Tech Talk with a senior engineer about How I/We work engineering best practices ..
3rd - Lunch break (It was a surprise interview I was not aware of this interview which was only focused on Why Uber)
4th - Behavioral (its liitle different than Amazon behavioral .. I loved the way the Manager asked questions he never asked me any question straight forward rather he asked me to tell almost every thing happened in my entire experience and extracted the answers to all his behavioral questions he wanted from me he mentioned them after every story I was telling very nice and humble guy)
5th- Design interview about building a scalable product and taking this vs that etc etc
6th - another and final coding round (with 2 engineers)
I was very confident and did very well with all code and design interviews with optimized solutions which they appreciated. ( with one exception Lunch interview with a PL, He mentioned in the very beginning of our conversation that he saw my resume he didn't want to bring me for onsite but others insisted.. He seemed to be very unsatisfied with my answers to some hr type questions he asked during our lunch, he would not let me complete with my reasoning in the entire course and kept on telling about what similar technology there with Google, Amazon, Lyft, Tesla etc .. We had some disagreement with opportunity vs availability for a innovative product which I did in my leisure years back without necessary technology)
Finally result out and I was not selected which I never expected. I was bit worried about the lunch interview until the result confirmed my suspicion.(You hardly get any feedback from HRs personally I never got any real feedback to be able to know what exactly went wrong and work on them for future)
Overall I would say Uber interview experience was much better I chatted with some nice people in every way than Amazon and Google.
Learning : Communication skill, Good command on English is must..
But This is my suggestions to people like me particularly who are non-english speakers just Coding doesn't help much in real interviews
Coding interviewers are not very friendly this is a wrong assumption that tech interviwers are friendly if you are stuck they give hint . ( I realized you can't rely on the fact that interviewers would give some hint or help to work towards the solution )
If you haven't given 100% correct and a competitive/optimized solution you never hope for LUCK
You have to SING in english thats when people would like you in non coding situations so please please work on english too more than coding interviews.
Finally you are in or out can be decided by the guy with whom you are going to have lunch with
Anyway I got placed with another company with very competitive wage for which I would definitely encourage people to prepare for these Big tech company which would help you raise the bar and reaching as high as possible.
So Cracking the interview for big tech is not a difficult task if you master these three simple techniques or own these skills already
- You master the data structures/computer fundamentals
- You must know the techniques to give the acceptable/optimized solutions To meet the time. You can't meet the time for any questions asked unless very good speed on your language ( DS is must but only can rescue when you don't know the most optimized solution and python as a language may be if you don't have speed in your own language )
- Must have a very good communication skills
I hate hearing excuses or giving excuses
Interviews in India are very different, if you belong to Top universities then only you will get a chance to get interviewed with these top companies ( with very very very few exceptions). But I am so happy that In America in just an year itself I first time got interviewed by these 3 big big Tech Giants without even sharing a Resume which is awesome :)
Tuesday, January 4, 2022
What story you want to tell
There is nothing in the world that is powerful than a good story ! Story unites, story destroys, story inspire, Story creates war too.. You know a good sells man add stories to it's product to sell it for profit..
Let's read and hear this small bed time story and extract some inspirations if we can..
Not a little long ago there was a boy in a small village who lived happily with his friends and family.
He would enjoy going to fields he would love to talk with animals and birds. he feels happy when he eats raw vegetables straight from the fields and enjoyed sleeping under the sky looking at the stars and listening to stories that his grandfather tells him. When he hears the black king and the white tiger he would imagine himself being the black king, he would dream one day he would be a king who will save people from poverty and also help as many animals as he can. when he listens to the story of Edwin Aldrin from his father he dreams that he will be an astronaut, one day he will slingshot to mars.
One fine day he left the village to a new place a small city where he had no friends. he missed his grandfather's stories about kings and queens, he missed talking to cows, goats and birds. he has a new world now. he missed his friends, suddenly everything looks void. The first day he went to school everyone around him seemed to be very intelligent and smart, he was so scared. he saw the schools were so big every class has its own room.
He now finds a new teacher for each of the new subject, he doesn't have to share the class with another grade student ! it was different and strange for him. but now he realized everyday he is learning new things, new stories from the history books, geography, and science. He was curious and always interested to know how things work. he would study hard thinking that he does not know anything that the city boys know he wished he was in the city from the very beginning he would gain friends only if he knows things so he studied hard.
A year passed he excels and he was surprised he excelled with the same friends who seem smarter and intelligent. suddenly he made a lot of friends he got noticed in the school. the new world which at first it looks scary started looking familiar he sees the same type of people and friends around him again then he would say the city is no different it just how I'm growing in my body within my body the world around me has grown a little bit, time passed he would excel and get attention in his school for his excellence.
One fine day he left the city and went to the bigger city leaving his parents suddenly same voidness appeared new faces new school around and people will it call college and university he was scared again looking at smart faces around him he realized again he does not know anything. he is not smart like the people around him. he wished again he would be born in the city he studied hard he wanted to know everything that other people know a year passed and he excelled again. he met friends and he learned a lot of things. now he knows this is life, now he knows life is easy if we adapt hard it, let's do a little better every day he gained the confidence that the cycle repeated and then he went to a bigger city for a bigger university and finally started to work very far away from his village and the world is shrinking to his imagination. Over overtime he excelled he traveled to a bigger and bigger city and the world started shrinking to him.
One fine day he met an accident he lost everything, friends too, he couldn't work left his job went back to the same village, lost all the money he saved. He wouldn't get recover from his illness he was all alone again went back to his small village he started seeing himself in a different world. everyone is running he is not able to, everyone is happier he is not.
He recalled "life becomes easy when you adapt hard" he read the story of Arunima Sinha who climbed Everest even she lost her two legs. he recollected himself suddenly sees that oh it's just a different world and every time I restart it looks difficult and strange to me. I know if I start today it will be better every day. I will regain the confidence and strength again this world will be smaller to me again and I will get back new friends. I will move to a new place and finally, after a lot of hardship and struggle, I am here. talking to you and sharing my piece of the story.
How to make your kids rich
Having Kids is the most amazing thing that happens to anyone. It's not only amazing in terms of being a complete family but also it's a very important and responsible part of your life. So Today I am going to talk about how can we make our kids rich. I am going to talk about how to save money for your kids education or marriage. Money saved is sometimes called Money earned. If we follow this structure I am talking here I am sure you will be unburden from this most expensive responsibility that you will have in future for your kid.
I think the most important event for a kid is getting an admission to a university after school or if you have a girl child than her marriage are the most expensive events for a parent I say as an Indian parent.
I am going to talk about PPF, ELSS and Mutual funds
Now a days college education and marriage expenditures are the most expensive part in someones life.. You spend almost all your life savings sometimes in them and we can't even afford and get admission to a university even if we want to. So we have to act fast and act wise for our kids future and for saving ourself from financial burn down during such an event.
Sunday, July 11, 2021
Try - A hummingbird song that I gave lyrics to
Hey
You stay
You Turn into a bag of hay
You TRY
You handle anything that comes your way
Saturday, June 26, 2021
An epiphany about the importance of childhood tool to not to fail !
Hello guys have you ever thought about one question "As we grow" why do we fail more often than we succeed? I just had an epiphany about the importance of few simple tools that we used to use in our childhood but not anymore, We almost forgotten to use them today. Just introspect how often do you use a calendar since we graduated or since we stopped going to school, since you lost weight, since you went through a body building program, prepared for exam.
"we fail very often nowadays" because we don't follow a calendar for our goals which was our sword, the magic wand to win as we used to, every day, every moment in our childhood days .. just introspect
Now a days we use the calendar for shopping, visiting friends, going to a theater or traveling.. But we are not using the calendar for saving money, we aren't use the calendar for improving our personality, we aren't using the calendar for increasing wealth, we aren't use the calendar for achieving goals.. Ask your self what changed why are you not using this simple tool anymore.. You don't have time ? Time didn't change, You changed.. Think about how did you lost your weight or went through a body building program, Think about how did you last time prepare for an exam, Think about how did you learn cycling and I am sure you will remember the importance of Calendar..
Calendar is not about doing more, it's about doing things at certain time of the day for certain period everyday or every week or every month or every year. If you think there is some truth about what I have mentioned today Just create a calendar, plan your task for a week, mark them when done or not done .. just follow for a week and see how things change.. if you think you have done better than last week by following this simple technique .. Then don't stop follow it for the entire month and then follow it when ever you want to achieve something, when ever you want to complete your task for the day or month or Year. Thank you bye take care and talk to you later..
Monday, March 22, 2021
My 1400$ Plan as An Engineer
Ok I am back home and let's try to talk through the process
This is my plan guys on spending my 1400$ this season.
I have categorized my plan broadly on 3 parts
1 - Entertainment & Hobby ( 500$ )
500$ I am thinking of a camera .. is it an entertainment ? haha Actually I can say yes because thats how I spend my leisure creating something new and sharing my experience which can help someone in many different ways. Actually I have one Old Sony Camera and my MI Phone, My Mac Webcam where till now I have been recording videos. I wanted to create Videos for my educational website interviewdose.com and youtube .. I wanted to start but at the same time I didn't want to put money on gadgets. So I just started because I think I should not worry about gadgets when my product is a Content/Video .. Creating Content is more important than gadgets .. The same applies now also but Ahh I think its time to do some upgrade as I have gained some skills and expertise...
So what camera I should buy ? actually I am still unable to decide between GoPro and DJI Pocket 2 - Mainly I want one of these camera because they are light weight. They are good for out door activity. optionally I am looking for a good camera which can be used as a webcam with my laptop too. ( Please suggest me what should I choose you can comment below and let me know your opinion )
2 - Stock Investment ( Minimalistic or Micro investment 500$ )
This is my first ever investment in USA after coming from India. I am going to use RobinHood it's very simple app. Infact I dont know if there is any better app I feel its really simple to use.. I got to know that we can even buy fractional share in RobinHood. which I was thinking only possible for Crypto .. Again I have a hobby of doing paper trading instead of real trading because of the fear of loosing :). umm I think with this fractional share investment option its easy to invest even 1$ in a stock and watch that moving up or down and see the performance which I think is a good learning exercise for someone who wants to experience the app and stock investing.
I am not an expert either, I used to trade stocks in India and I have almost always lost doing everything I have heard or learnt things like long term investment, things like follow the trend, follow the news etc etc .. But after a lot of failures I started to realize that this is not my cup of tea.. I can't stand on two boats.. I can't quit my job :) ..Finally I have settled with Mutual funds let someone take the headache of buying and selling on behalf of me and share some profit I am fine with it.
Ok now coming back to what I am going to buy here.. I think "buying cheap" is a lesson which I never tried so far.. Because stocks are sold cheap only when they crash or dumped and the fear of loosing more didn't allow me to put money at that time. So I know I might be late but I have finalized my 500$ will go to GUSH this season. Gush is an ETF ( Oil & Gas ) This was plumed heavily in March in the Corona Dump since then it is trying to recover.. Currently its trading around 74$ so I can afford buying 7 units .. This is a penny investment I know but to learn something I believe in applying and experiencing too. It's ok this is just a start will do dollar cost averaging or apply CANSLIM method which I learnt from a book that I will talk about later. This is again not a investment recommendation I truly believe in doing your personal research before investing in anything.
3 - Education & Certifications ( 200$ + 100$ + 18$)
I completed my degree and Got a job and then I lost the charm of doing higher studies, leaving my job for money! because after all if the end product is money acquiring just another degree and spending some more money with time didn't make sense to me. If I can earn that much or more being an expert in my field or mastering my skills where I am good at why should I go to school Thats what I thought. I am believer of self education than traditional school based education. If I would like to do some higher studies than I would do in a subject which is my passion like Physics or Something that I am curious to know may be after I retire but not for money now at least. If the education is unable to give you any financial benefit or support then there is no point of acquiring the certificate and wasting time. These thought always hunted me..
Then what am I doing today here ? I am going to spend around 200$ in a certification. Yes a skill that I want to put in my resume which can help me adding some weights that's it without going to school In short That's it. I have two options ( more than one choice always create dilemma, there should not be more than 1 choice in life than human will definitely acquire it without swinging ) with me which I am considering..I will tell you later once I settle and acquire one of it. But I have planned 200$ for this certification.
100$ - Buying and Renewing some of my domain e.g feettrack.com and interviewdose.com .. As a software engineer I love building beautiful products even though they fail and writing millions of line of code in my free time. I have built many websites and android apps so far and I have been paying for domain and hosting fees as-well I spent almost 25$ every month in hosting since 2007.. this is a passion that I love and I think this not only educate me brushing my skills and but generate new ideas in my mind and keep me occupied doing more and contribute to the society too in a certain way. I think its an investment for my personal education I always take it as a learning because at-least it helps me upgrading my skills for current or any future job opportunities. I will be sharing Some of the new ideas in my channel stay tuned.
Buying Book - How to Make Money in Stocks : 18$ This book is the only book in stock investing which I admire a lot cause I learnt a lot and by following some principle like CANSLIM method I made some profits too. I buy books which I keep with me for life. I bought this book around 2009-2010 I remember I asked one of my friend to get it from USA back then I was trading in India. after a lot of loss and failures in stock investing and research I found this book helping I definitely recommend someone if you are into stock investing buy this book and read.
Then what happened why am I buying again.. I gifted this book to one of my friend .. So I just want to buy it and keep it because I just love this book and refer the techniques again and again.
Ohh I have some more money left.. Of course Rest will go in Food in a nice restaurant and Buying some ice cream with family .. Thanks guys for listening to me hope my plan helps and let me know if you have some suggestions or questions always happy to listen and share.
Saturday, May 12, 2018
Thank you mom | Teaching adaptibility
Saturday, February 25, 2017
Why Quick connect to nearby connect ?
Back home I started my research experimented on the available technologies, wrote few successful proof of concept app with redis, mongo and vertx-java. Then I came up with this idea of integrating nearby technology with a social network touch to make it very generic. It took me great deal of experiment to come up with a user friendly UX. Finally I am done and it's here as you see. It took me long and by the time lot of easier technology like firebase to build such servers have come up but i sticked to my design and technology as I feel it's more configurable.
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Shame on you !
Friday, March 6, 2015
Colorful Darkness
Rahul for a while sees Lavanya's face disappearing in the new moon. Her green Chudidar was vague in the darkest night. He walked into the small door from where he sees some light and it took a fraction of second to the whiteness that is brought by the snow filled mountains and on top up his head - the rope way carrying the newly married couple on a honey moon trip, the rope car signs Zurich.
On a turn, he finds the train station, the ugliest person ever he saw with the paper band all over his body. He spoke English !, ran towards him and grabbed the hot tea from Rahul and had emptied with a sip. Rahul was amazed ! The intellect started laughing at him and far at the station's chair he started reading the english news paper and tore a column, quickly made a fold and clipped it on his waist.
He found himself grazing Kangaroos at his yards of couli-flowers and Lavnya spraying the insecticides with the high-tech tractor and looks at the farthest far at the big desert at the end of the horizon.
There was an asylum in a corner of darkness. The slum of blinds, who neither knows what is light, what is dark ! Someone asked Rahul what are you doing here ? How did he recognize him without having eyes ! Rahul asked himself. Does it pain The blind returned back ! But blind's lips were tight ! There was a roar of happiness, every one was blind with the happiest smile. It started raining ! Rahul got drenched and one of them pulled and asked him to look at moon. He told we feel cold but how does the moon look ?
He started walking counting the steps and he hardly had finished the countable count he could and the colorful lights were clear, polar lights in such a horrible darkness every where. He was easy, it wasn't horrible anymore ! He never even saw such beautiful color of nature in such a darkness. He tries to see the moon but lord Krishna smiled. He looked at the divine tree and Radhika dancing drenched with the ray of colors, Krishna, Krishna. He heard music of streams and birds twitter with Dholki da Dhol.
He felt difficulty in breathing and He felt heavy on his chest too. He felt suffocated, he tries to scream but there was no sound, he felt restless, He saw his mom just sitting at the sofa and taking to Lavanya with the usual gossip and laugh, he sought help but no one heard ! He felt tremble on his legs and more suffocation and now he screamed mom, mom, but he baffled again. He felt the saliva on his shoulders falling through his mouth. He gathered all his power and tried to unload something which was heavy on his chest. He could see now wide and clear the tiny and colored member of his own was trying his first lap on his chest and slap on his face full of colors with his baby baffles and then he murmured Babba !!
Rahul wasn't not tired with his long voyage on the Colorful Darkness. He giggled with dimples, rubbed more and more to his chicks with the color of yellow, green and red with his son.
Saturday, February 7, 2015
One Moment at Chicago Airport
#AAPtard is getting retired anyway #DelhiElections is coming to an end
and take care of your health, hope you will get sometime to call us back.
It was an emotional moment for Rahul too, Mom and Dad after one and a half months of stay with him to help him during a critical surgery were also leaving with her, He would be all alone again after a longtime.
She Continued: #AAP haar jayegi to tumhe bura lagegga, and then your friends would start laughing at you ..
Rahul replied in the same Sahrukh Khan way with wide arms "Laallvi Haar karr jitne wale ko Bajigar kahte hain !"
"Agar aap dil se kuchh bhi chaho to puri kayanat usse aap se milane ki dua karta hai"
Lavanya : I am serious, Don't be filmy here .. Please take care of your health and don't jump start on to a Voyage
Mom and Dad were watching his activity and smiling at him, Rahul didn't care he continued..
Back to 14 years I choose Girl vs IIT.
What :
Result: #Failed - bla, bla, bla
Introspection : Immaturity
Lesson: BePractical
#NotMyWords: When you learn to avoid gals, u'll realize what is life
Back to 7 years I choose Entrepreneurship vs M'Tech
What : Co-Founded, Funded a corporation with friends
Result: #Failed - Got cheated, Lost all my investments and profits
Introspection : Wrong Friends, Be Professional while doing business with any one
Lessons: Marketing, Learn Marketing, Hedging, Build Trusty Team
#NotMyWords: I became a good fan of failure.
Back to 4 years I choose Business vs Start-up
What : Funded a business for a cousin, brothers which in fact was more profitable than investing and working for my Start-up
Result: #Failed - Lost some investment but it is Hedged
Introspection : Don't rely on #FamilyMembers unless they invest #TimeAndMoney
Lessons: Accounting and Inventory management
#NotMyWords: Nothing is funny here.
Last year Dec 29th I choose a three hour Surgery/Risk vs a Future of uncertainty/A State of Dilema
What : Doctor asked how are you ? I told "I am ready to sleep in the deathbed"
Result : #UnKnown - life back with a successful surgery with uncertain results :)
Introspection : I am late !. Destiny is the destination.
Lessons: Recognized #TrueFriends & Family, The Sooner is better listen to your heart, #BePositive (Matured mind creates dilemma)
#NotMyWords: Worrying doesn't reduce yesterday's sorrows but it empties today's strength.
Failures are the pillar of success and I am a great fan of failures, you see how many things I learnt from my mistakes, there are many in my life but these are very important which I wanted to emphasize here.
I can't disrespect #ArvindKejriwal, a person who wants to change our future, system and dream a corruption free India. I did my part by following an intellectual person who is logically correct in every way and dare to answer every damn question. An Honest and A Positive person only come back like this and they can't be laughed. World is changing so as the human nature and their deeds and I hate people who says After 20 years I would like to be a Director ! This person taught how can you transform the ideas into reality within an year in social media and in 49 days of its rules. Accept, Active, Ambitious, Authentic, Altruistic, Allure, Agile, Adaptable is what I believe #AamAdmiParty.
I am sure and I have seen Freshers and Youngsters in any company contribute for a successful project not the experienced ones.
I will laugh at the people who still thinks that an inexperienced people can't give a better governance,
They have to think again and ask them selves why Google, Facebook still hires freshers from IIT rather than hiring the most experienced people like them. And if they ask about an experienced Leader, I would again say Steve Jobs and Bill gates were not experienced when they founded their very successful company. So #Trust and #BeWithMe and we will bring #Kranti if we fail again.
#IAlwaysSay "Be prepared for the worst case", So do you and life becomes so easy for you.
#MyWords "You say meow and I will Growl, you say it's a joke I will Roar". PERIOD
Anyway Rahul assured her that he would take care of his health, she with mom and dad should not be worried of him at all. He took the cheaper route back to his apartment via train.