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.'"
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
