Job Search 2.0 Is Over

After 7-8 weeks of job searching, 2 rejections, numerous design, management and programming tests, I declare Job Search 2.0 is officially over. I got two job offers. Between Yahoo and Quantcast, I had to turn down a great opportunity at Yahoo and join the people at Quantcast. I love both companies and the offers, but the potential in Quantcast's web analytic for advertising is just too huge for me to walk away from. I will be writing a lot code and dealing with tera tera terabytes of web analytic data on a huge 1000-node cloud, which is something I never had a chance to deal with.

Seriously, I am going to miss all those job interviews because I'm good at them. I'm also gonna miss this blogging outlet for me to talk about my search.

Ciao and sign off.

Round #2

Round #2 of interviews are coming up. I had lined up 3 onsite interviews with 3 startups. Two of them had to deal with online advertising. That's a proven space on the web. The other one has to deal with editorial and user contributed contents focuses on women.

To get to Round #2, I had gone through pretty long and technical phone screenings with the vp's of engineering and was asked to write a spreadsheet. No kidding. A spreadsheet! Each cell needs to handle reverse postfix expression and reference to other cells in the sheet. Those sample test cases for the spreadsheet have nasty circular references which guarantee to give you an infinite loop? Hard enough? Fortunately, I got that done and gone through to Round #2.

I wonder what kind of torture and interrogation I will be getting.