27th october 2010(yesterday), the most remarkable day if my whole life, I got my first Job and guess the recruiter….well its Yahooooooooooooooo! I am loving it. :)
I woke up a bit earlier yesterday, got ready and reached TnP sharp at 9 am, shockingly the Pre Placement talk started at its scheduled time(which is generally rare). It was a great talk, we really got to know how big the brand Yahoo is and how cool the environment at Yahoo is. PPT continued for alomost 1 hr then we all were moved to auditorium for the written test. I was pretty much nervous, as my performance in the past written tests doesn’t worth mentioning.
WRitten test consisted of 25 MCQs with 5 options in each question, there were questions from topics like multithreading, Processes,Algorithms complexity, data structures, Counting etc. The paper was entirely based upon the fundamentals. If you have done fundamentals well, you’ll clear it. 20 people were shortlisted for the coding round.
COding round, We were given the problem of implementing the unix utility ‘grep’ I didn’t really do good in that round but still I was through :)
Overall 7/20 could clear the coding round.
FIrst interview, This interview went quite well, my interviewer was from DCE itself, so I got the benefit I guess, He was basically checking my fundamentals, he asked me to improve the best case performance of bubble sort, then a good discussion on quick sort,  one quick puzzle, a lengthy discussion on my GSoC project and some fundas of web development(dcetech.com)
SEcond interview, This interview was a disaster, My interviewer was the most senior member of the Yahoo team and threw a lot of good questions, I didn’t actually answered them very well, but still I was through :) .They really liked me :)
Only 3 people were called for the 3rd interview, It was basically based on though processing, He asked me problem which is under active research and I has a good discussion with my interviewer, It was really fun.Again I was asked about the GSoC project(the work I did for Mozilla) and then my language preferences.
Next was the HR interview, It was just a really casual talk and I enjoyed it thoroughly.
Finally we all were asked to wait for sometime.
Then HR came and announced the result, My heart was throbbing and mind full of contradictory thoughts……. yes,yes I was jumping after I heard the result, I finally made it.
and best part is that the profile I am being offered is Software Engineer(Engineering Production) which is entirely development(no QA :P )
Congrats to my fellow Yahoo selectees Akhil and Mukesh! Hope to have a nice time at Yahoo!!
Tomorrow(29th October) is my birthday and I could have never imagined a better gift :)