[en] From my recruiter: Job opportunities @Google

My name is Sripriya. I am part of the recruiting team for Google.com (SRE) Group.

We currently have positions available at Google that may be a good match for you. If you are open to exploring these opportunities further, please send an updated version of your resume in Word, HTML, or PDF to JuanJo's email with "Subject: job opportunity @Google: " as soon as possible

***We have multiple openings located in Dublin - Ireland and Zurich - Switzerland)***

All positions involve working in our infrastructure team, known as Google.com Engineering. Our Google.com engineers hold the beating heart of Google and are very well respected. They are responsible for keeping the google.com website up and running as well as building new automation infrastructure. We are seeking extraordinary Developers, UNIX (Linux) System Administrators, and Managers/Directors to add to our exciting team and growing organization.

If this prospect is of interest to you, please get in touch with me as I will like to share your resume with the hiring engineers to see if there is match. You may also know engineers with this skill set who are looking for fresh challenges; I will appreciate it if you will pass my contact information to them.

Please note that in addition to these positions, we also have openings as a Systems Deployment Engineer, Launch Coordination Engineer, and Engineering Project Manager.

For more information, go to:

Zurich positions:
http://www.google.ch/support/jobs/bin/topic.py?dep_id=1058&loc_id=1115

Dublin - Ireland positions:
http://www.google.ie/support/jobs/bin/topic.py?dep_id=1058&loc_id=1110

Thank you and hope to hear from you soon.

Thanks & Best Regards,
Sripriya
--
Sripriya Sampath
Technical Recruiter
Google Inc

[en] preparing yourself for the technical interview (cont'd)

Cool ... so you're already enjoying answering those tricky tech and puzzle questions from my previous post.

Time for more formal lectures, here is a list of helpful textbooks you should study before the technical interview (again, based on my profile, see my previous post).

• Networking
• Internet Core Protocols: The Definitive Guide
  E Hall - 2000 - O'Reilly & Associates.
  Great book on TCP/IP network and transport protocols, very comprehensive yet easy reading (BTW do trash the CD contents, just use wireshark )
  
  
  
• POSIX & BSD sockets API
• Our beloved APUE: Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment
  R. Stevens, S. Rago - 2004 - A. Wesley.
  From our great all-time teacher, Richard Stevens, impressive as all his books.
  
  
  
• Unix Network Programming
  WR Stevens, B Fenner, AM Rudoff - 2004 - A. Wesley.
  THE reference book for IPC & network programming
  
  
  
• POSIX.4: Programming for the Real World
  Bill 0. Gallmeister - 1995 - O'Reilly.
  Great book about multithreading POSIX API
  
  
  


• Linux sysadmin and alike: there are actually a LOT of books, but nothing can compare with a good expertise ;), so ...
  
• LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
  J. Dean, B. Gomes Pessanha ... - 2006 - O'Reilly.
  Nice book for autotesting your already learned sysadm knowledge & skills
  
  
• Unix/Linux internals
• Understanding the Linux Kernel, 3rd Edition
  D. P. Bovet, M. Cesati - 2005 - O'Reilly
  Too detailed, try to "grep" for concepts and graphs
  
  

'nuff written ... now enjoy the cool reading 8^)

[en] preparing yourself for the technical interview

So you've followed my suggestion, made your shinning resumè ... so the call from your future job recruiters may come in any moment.

Time to get() ready for the technical interview!

Here are some useful links I've collected while preparing my interviews, obviously considering my profile: networking, Linux/UN*X sysadm & trou, low level programming in C and shell scripting, kernel internals.

• Cool univ. courses podcasts, they even do help us non-English speakers to exercise our brain translator neurons :-):
• MIT Open CourseWare: 6.046J / 18.410J Introduction to Algorithms (SMA 5503), Fall 2005
  http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-046JFall-2005/CourseHome/index.htm
  

• UC Berkley: CS 162 Operating Systems and System Programming
  http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?seriesid=1906978416

• lang.shell:
• The OMNI cool Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
  http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
  
  
• lang.C:
• Advanced Test in C: The 0x10 Best Questions for C Programmers
  http://www.programmersheaven.com/articles/pathak/article2.htm
  
  
• Tech questions, puzzles and such (lot of FUN, take it!)


• Technical Interview Resources
  http://technical-interview.com/default.aspx


• UPDATED: Another similar site (thanks Nikita for the suggestion)
  http://technical-interviews.com/

Enjoy!
I assure you will ... else ask the mirror if you could be called a true geek ;-)

[en] your CV is useless

You (may) use to maintain a pretty precise Curriculum Vitae (CV) with every bit of your professional activities.
Bad news: it's useless (well, to be honest, it's perfect for filling paper files =)

At least this happened to me while applying for working at google.com , I needed to rush and write a "Resumè" , which is a sort of resumed-CV but focused on your profile, strengths, etc.

These are some useful links I've collected that helped me writing the "Resumè" (of course you could just search for "resume tips" and such, but there are plenty of results and much noise around):

1. http://www.resume-resource.com/examples.html
2. http://www.resume-resource.com/extec7.html
   
3. http://www.alec.co.uk/how-to-write-a-resume/how-to-make-a-resume.htm
4. http://www.how-to-write-a-resume.org/action_verbs.htm
5. http://lifehacker.com/5866630/how-can-i-make-sure-my-resume-gets-past-resume-robots-and-into-a-humans-hand

Don't rush when forced, do it now (it happend to be of some fun ;)

BTW Here is my Resumè: https://sites.google.com/site/juanjosec/curriculum/Resume-JuanJoseCiarlante-en.2011oct12.pdf

[UPDATED 2010-05-27: new resume url]
[UPDATED 2011-10-12: updated my resume, add link#5. ]

Un cordobés @Mendoza ... hacia Google Zurich

Gracias a todos mis amigos por su buena onda ... no hay palabras para contar la emoción que siento :~)
--jjo



Sipp ... me voy a trabajar a Google Zurich, obbbbviamente familia included.

La historia es larga en anécdotas, pero vertiginosamente corta en tiempo: hace NADA MÁS que 2 meses y medio me llegó un mail @google.com invitándome a realizar el proceso de entrevistas técnicas para ver si calificaba.

Y así fue ... aprobé las entrevistas telefónicas --hardcore-- y una onsite en las oficinas de Google Zurich --que constó de varias entrevistas muy hardcore-- ... todo el proceso fascinante y muy desafiante.

Y bueh, acatamo' ... tratando de (no)entender cómo se dan las cosas en la vida, sino de just disfrutarlas =)