Inside a Google onsite interview

May 15 2012 Published by under Insanity,Travel&Events

Last Friday I found myself in Google’s London HQ, talking about cool problems with a bunch of engineers. The so called “onsite interviews”. The saga started a few months ago with two phone interviews. Then Google sent me a “What to know in onsite interviews” email. And here I was, completely unprepared, having the time [...]

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Going from Slovenia to Palo Alto … what culture shock?

Jul 15 2011 Published by under Uncategorized

The drink/coffee meetings resulting from my post about coming to Palo Alto have started happening. It’s great fun meeting new people and getting a feel for the local community and entrepreneurial scene. Certainly a great place to be for meeting cool people and hackers. Invariably, though, the conversation comes up to a point where they [...]

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Doing a startup taught me the value of staying in school

Jun 02 2011 Published by under Insanity

This post has been brewing for the past few months. I decided to finally write it to psyche myself up for the onslaught of the exam season starting next week. A little background; a few months ago I crashed and burned doing a big swing for the fences, a startup I had been working on [...]

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Today was the worst day I’ve ever had

Jun 21 2010 Published by under Insanity

Image by Still Burning via Flickr Ok so today has probably been one of the crappiest days in a very very long time. Nothing spectacular happened, just a bunch of small very very irritating and annoying things, just enough to ruin your mood for a whole week. Which is awesome since it’s Monday. Even better, [...]

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Of London, Murphy and Seedcamp

Sep 14 2009 Published by under Uncategorized

Image via Wikipedia Last week’s trip to London was governed by the laws of Murphy, or Sod as Londoners would call ‘im. It was a fun and interesting trip, don’t get me wrong, and I still love London almost as much as I did after my last trip there two years ago. It’s just that [...]

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