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06 Nov 2019
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How I Applied For Internships Outside India?
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For the past two-three months, I’ve been applying for software engineering summer internships outside India and have, now, accepted offer to spend the time at Mercari Japan. It has been a tiring experience amidst handling a lot of other ongoing stuff.
In the next few paragraphs I would be talking about how I started applying, what was the most effective... more
02 Nov 2019
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Interview Experience With Google
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In a previous blog of mine regarding completing the foo.bar challenge, I talked about how I completed the foo.bar challenge but what I didn’t talk about was that I was invited for the internship recruiting process afterward soon by Google North America.
How Did I Apply?
Once, I had completed Foo.Bar challenge I received an email from Google asking for... more
31 Oct 2019
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Interview Experience With Mercari
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It is very exciting for me to have the chance to spend my summers 2020 at Mercari Japan. It was a roller-coaster experience from the point I applied for a Backend Engineer at Mercari Japan to the day I got the offer letter in my inbox.
I would be sharing my interview experiences in somewhat detail in order to give... more
03 Oct 2019
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I Finished Google's Foo.Bar Challenge
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On June 13 2019, I received the invitation for the [in]famous Google Foo.Bar challenge: sent to those who are deemed fit by Google for working with them.
Why Did I Get The Invitation?
I’ve no concrete idea why I got the invitation. Being a software developer, my searches mostly involve programming related queries and that could have been the very... more
01 Oct 2019
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Quick Notes On Improving Productivity
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I recently read Sam Altman’s guide to productivity. It is approximately a 10 minutes read so I’m putting summary of it below as a quick notes essay. These methods also put to test his claims of being more productive than average; where definitely average is debatable.
Samuel H. “Sam” Altman is an American entrepreneur, investor, programmer, and blogger. He is... more
29 Sep 2019
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Serving React With Nginx
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Once we get used to serving static content with Nginx, it is hard to notice the subtle changes we might require to serve React static content which uses react-router. I faced a similar bug when only the index page of iit-techambit.in was being exposed and rest pages were to be found nowhere unless redirected from the home page itself.
Nginx... more
17 Jul 2019
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Exposing Campus PC On SSH
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The default port for SSH is blocked in the campus and it forces one to use a lot of workarounds to do simple SSH tasks; one such task is exposing a PC inside campus network for SSH by a PC outside the campus network.
I recently had to do the hardwork and this article shows the steps I used for... more