Around November 2007 I managed to get into Google’s Boston office for an interview.  I had always wanted to interview at Google and this was the opportunity I had been waiting for.  I had applied many times in the past, but never got anything except a generated rejection letter.  Before I got my interview and while I was studying I searched endlessly online for any tips that might help me succeed and to know what to expect.  There are plenty of resources, and I’ll highlight a couple of them.  I’m not going to reproduce what’s already been said.  I’m just going to tell the story of my visit to the Google Boston office starting with my early attempts to get an interview and ending with the actual interview and my reactions to it.

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I’ve decided it will be good for me if I can sit down once a week and try to write about a problem I had to solve that week, either in my daily life or working on a project.

The biggest problem for this week was actually making myself sit down and write something on here.  I don’t think that would be very interesting to readers or my future self so I’ll fore go the discussion of that.

I think the first thing I should do is explain my background.  I am a Ph.D. candidate at the University of South Carolina (USC) working in the ARENA for Research on Emerging Networks and Applications (ARENA) lab.  Here I focus on developing new wireless network protocols in an endless quest to publish papers.  I have been with Dr. Srihari Nelakuditi since about 2004, when he hired me as an undergraduate researcher.  We have presented multiple papers together.  One was presented at MobiCom and can be found in the Mobile Computer Communications Review (MCCR), it is on security in Mobile Ad Hoc NETworks (MANETs).  Another notable paper was presented at the WiMesh workshop 2008 at SECON, it is not yet available online and focused on bit-rate selection in oppotunistic routing.  The second paper was also the focus of my Master’s Thesis.

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