Filed under: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!
Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo: an intern's view
A former Microsoft and Google intern who now works at Yahoo! has written up a summary of his experiences with each company. The low-down? Yahoo! has too much bureaucracy, Google has the best food. At Microsoft, every employee has their own office but, Bill Gates has a worn-out pair of shoes, just like anybody else.
The most solid revelation in the article, however, is this bit of sage advice for the job candidate: "Apparently the answer to 'Can you tell me what was the most difficult bug you faced while programming and what you did to resolve it?' isn't 'My programs don't have bugs.'"
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
