(66) Li Kui and Li GUI
On Wednesday night, a candidate stood me up, and I was hoping for Thursday. On Thursday night, another candidate did the same and stood me up.
I’m not happy about being stood up. But both have good reasons. One is a girlfriend break up, to be careful to pacify; The other is that the final exam is coming, and you need to bury yourself in reading.
I’m hoping for Friday because the candidates scheduled to interview on Friday are keeping their promises. He just misread the time of the interview and showed up two hours early. Since everyone is here, we can’t keep them waiting. I had to drop what I was doing and look for a spare conference room.
The candidate’s name is Wang Shuai, a very common name. The person is very simple, head is not tall, keep board inch, baby face, the whole person feels like a high school student.
In the screening process, HIS resume left a deep impression on me. Despite his young age, his resume is two pages long. There was also a link to my blog site, which I clicked through.
The blog is based on an open source code, dark style, very geeky cool. There are a lot of original technical articles, although the quality is not high, but it can be seen that they are thoughtful, have their own thinking in them. That was one of the most important reasons I picked him for the interview.
In my search for candidates, I encountered too many showy, superficial candidates. Some people copy addiction, keen on porters, write so-called technical articles are mostly patchwork. Some people are obsessed with delving into obscure corner technology, seemingly inscrutable but actually full of bugs.
The heating in the meeting room was on full blast, and I still felt hot in my sleeves. I flip open my laptop and start the interview process. Wang shuai took off her coat to reveal a red sweater. Inside the red sweater was a white shirt, the collar protruding from the neck, stained with sweat and yellowing, no doubt.
I moved my bench a little closer to him for better communication. After I fixed the position, a damp and musty smell hit me head on. I sniffed the air around me, looking for the source of the musty smell, but it came from the red sweater. I guess it may be due to the cold weather, the sweater has just been taken out of the bottom of the box, has not seen the sun for a long time.
My eyes locked with Wang Shuai’s. His eyes flickered stiffly, and he cleared his throat and pursed his parched lips. I grabbed a bottle of mineral water from behind me and handed it to him. He took it with both hands, respectfully, and whispered thanks.
“Looking for an internship in my sophomore year is great. Are the other students sitting in their dorms playing video games?” I looked through Wang Shuai’s resume.
Wang Shuai eh 1, report me to smile. This kid was supposed to be a slow learner, careful with his words, unlike the big brother who studied literature on Tuesday. That big brother wants to take all my lines.
“Introduce yourself first?”
“My name is Wang Shuai, male, 20 years old, and I am interviewing for the position of backstage R&D intern.”
I deliberately paused, expecting Wang shuai to give more personal information, but he didn’t want to. I don’t say much, and I don’t impose. I pushed the pen and paper on the table toward him. “Shall we do an algorithm first?”
He picked up his pen, sat up and fixed his eyes on me, the cowardice of his former eyes fading away, as if he had been waiting for me to do something.
I wanted to test the waters with a simple question, but after seeing his determined eyes, I changed my mind.
“To implement a non-recursive version of the single-linked list inversion.”
He had to bend down quickly, afraid to waste a minute, first meditating for a while, then writing on the paper. Sketching, white paper is soon smeared like weeds.
I opened my browser, clicked on a news portal, and passed the time wandering around, looking up from time to time to see how he was doing.
Carbon pen rustles against A4 paper. After about fifteen minutes, he stopped, pulled a piece of paper out of the sheet, and copied the code again. When he had transcribed it, he went over it line by line.
Not to mention the level of his hand code, single this series of smooth operation, completely like a battle-hardened veteran. As a veteran of nearly two years, I can’t say I have such good interview habits.
He pushed the paper in front of me with humility on his face. “Interviewer, I’m done.”
I picked up the paper and read it carefully. My handwriting was not very good, but I transcribed it neatly and easily.
“Overall good, but there’s one boundary condition that seems to be wrong. Look again?”
I put the paper back in front of him, and he stared at the code for a while. All of a sudden, he sighed and struck his forehead repeatedly with a look of annoyance.
“Damn it, always making mistakes in this place.”
Think I read sophomore time, the level may not be as good as his present half, then sent to comfort: “you only sophomore, can write so is already very good, has been brush algorithm recently?”
He nodded and smiled shyly, and I noticed he was shy when he wasn’t discussing technology. The candidate’s code ability is ok, I looked through the resume, ready to review his project practice. Project experience everywhere, but mostly the same, look carefully, there are not many bright spots.
“Only a sophomore, how can I accumulate so much project practice?”
“I usually do some private work with my classmates and do some small projects.”
“Database tuning, cache any of these touches?”
“Worked with mysql for slow query tuning and redis for caching.”
“Do you know the implementation mechanism of Redis?”
“No, just used.”
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Technical interviews are easy enough to stump someone. If he’s good at algorithms, ask him about architecture. If he’s good at architecture, ask him about business. He has a wide range of techniques, so he takes one point and digs in. He was the guru of a technology stack, so I looked at him in a different direction.
Interviewing people is not about showing off your skills or putting them down. It’s about finding a buddy who can fight alongside you. So my visits were mostly minimal, and the goal was to determine whether the candidate matched the team’s technology stack.
After an inspection, I am satisfied with his performance, and I hope he can come to the internship as soon as possible to help me share some work. But given that good people never run out of offers, I asked, “What other internship offers do you have?”
“Still waiting to hear.” He shook his head.
At least two rounds of technical interviews is a hard and fast rule. He had passed my test, and I stood up to ask Kangshen to inspect it again.
“Ok, just a moment while I call the second interviewer.”
It was dinnertime, and the people in the office had left for seven or eight. At this time kang God’s station empty, look around did not see him. The only thing left in the group is Big Fly. He was watching a variety show with a pair of big red headphones, occasionally laughing lewd.
I walked up behind him and shook his seat. Big flying brother off the headset, looked back at me, I smile to greet.
“Big fly brother, didn’t have a meal?”
“I ate a lot at noon. I’m not very hungry now.”
Must be a variety show too good-looking, big brother eyes only staring at the computer screen, carelessly and I talk. I rubbed my hands on big Fly’s shoulders to help him relax his muscles.
“Help me meet an intern. He’s a nice guy.”
Big fly elder brother suddenly turn head come, all eyes ground stare at me: “male? A woman?”
“A young man.” I’m afraid to make love to see beautiful women, love to tell dirty jokes big fly brother disappointed.
Give me expect, big fly elder brother suddenly extrude drool look. He rubbed his hands and looked at me devilishly. “I love it, young man.”
I clasped my fist and bowed: “Thank big fly elder brother, people in the Himalaya conference room, the foundation is quite good, is a good seedling, you look.”
Big fly elder brother turn off variety show, unplug headset, left hand clipped notebook computer, right hand carrying bubble full medlar teacup, buttocks a twist twist ground walked into himalaya conference room.
I did not learn to fly brother’s interview, but previously listen to Wang Xu said big fly brother interview must kill skills. He had three puzzle questions stored in his stomach, which he had asked everyone he interviewed, and no one had yet answered them all correctly. When Wang Xu school recruit into lang Yun, the first is big fly brother, chi belly, he only answered up a.
I sat at my station, praying big Fly would show mercy. After all, she is only applying for a small internship position, don’t be too difficult.
I lit up my computer screen and typed the interview into the system. I give Wang a 3.5 out of 5, which is average. After recording the message, my stomach began to rumble. I sent A message to Li Xiangyang on wechat, inviting him to come downstairs for rice noodles.
It was dinner time, downstairs is full of dining colleagues, we sit together in groups, eating while chatting, is very lively. I ordered a bowl of Guilin rice noodles and Li Xiangyang ordered clay pot rice.
The rice noodles were a little hot, so I picked out a chopstick and left it in the air to cool down. Then I said to Li Xiangyang, “Have you made an appointment for an interview with the young man who recommended comparative literature to you the day before yesterday?”
Li Xiangyang gobbled up his food and choked his esophagus with a look of pain on his face. He took a few sips of soup from my bowl and the pain eased.
“Don’t fucking mention it. I’ll call the guy. What do you think they said? They say he suddenly lost interest in the Internet and thought about discovering that his favorite thing was literature.”
“His grandma a leg, affection this big brother is playing the world, experience life? Kui I also want to solicit a talent for Lang Cloud, early know so unreliable, I why bother to waste words with him.”
Entering the winter, the amount of food increased. For several days, Li Xiangyang and I actively practiced the compact disc action. After dinner, we opened the door and walked out. The rice noodle shop has another batch of customers, which are several people from the client group. Acquaintances meet and exchange a few pleasantries.
Out of the shop, cold wind shop surface and I wrapped wrapped down jacket. Li Xiangyang, close behind me, ran a couple of paces and caught up with me. He asked me: “Yesterday Kangshen and CAI Chang had a big quarrel, do you have any inside story?”
Good news never goes out, and bad news travels fast. Cold wind rushed into my back. I ran a few steps quickly and entered Langyun Building. Then I turned to Li Xiangyang and said, “Qianlong’s backstage development progress is a little behind, which has affected CAI Chang and their client group. When CAI Chang reported to Li Bo, he complained about Kang Shen.”
As the doors open and we follow our company into the elevator, we consciously stop gossiping. The elevator stopped on the tenth floor. Li Xiangyang was going to turn right, and I was going to turn left. As we parted, we resumed the conversation which had been broken.
Li Xiangyang said, “You said they were all postgraduates. How could they quarrel?”
Although langyun Beijing branch of the post a lot of adults, but not many high-level. Both are the alumni of the University of Post, such as CAI Chang, Kang Shen, such technical backbone, should be united and support each other, but the relationship between them is not good.
I am disappointed that the same family fights each other, but different people have different temperaments and it is hard to say who is right and who is wrong. Look at Li Xiangyang that pair of carefree look, I am not angry to hit a place.
“It’s your product team’s fault for constantly changing requirements.”
Li3 xiang4 yang4 squeeze out a face injustice: “I his mama injustice, I always put the technology big guy when grandpa for.”
“Don’t mess with useless things. Do you have any technical apprentices? We need a lot of people.”
Li Xiangyang looked at me in surprise, “Are you kidding? My foreign language university Spanish minor language specialty, do you think my younger brother learns younger sister the possibility somebody does technology?”
“If someone as unreliable as you can come to Langyun, why can’t others engage in technology?” I scorned.
Li Xiangyang is full of grumble: “think I was also the brain was kicked by donkey, unexpectedly into the Internet this pit, I will never pit younger school sister.”
In order to “dive dragon” can go to sea smoothly, as soon as possible flying dragon in the sky. Everyone’s been working overtime lately, day and night. I got two black circles under my eyes and Li Xiangyang got a lot of hair.
If a man would do his work well, he must first protect his work. Li Xiangyang trusts a person to buy a few bottles of high-grade protect hair element from Japan, still spent a thousand pieces of gold to seek one stick unripe hair prescription. Make nursing, take Traditional Chinese medicine, discharge toxin. This series of head health care, from his fear of young steps in the kangshenna district support central.
Waving goodbye to Li Xiangyang, I trotted back to my station and saw big Fly returning to the state of watching videos with headphones. I lit up the screen of my phone and checked the time. It had only been half an hour.
I gently pick big fly elder brother’s headset, ask: “big fly elder brother, the face how?”
“Well, the basics are all right, but the boy has one fatal flaw.” Big fly brother sighed.
“Oh?” I was astonished, and wondered what fatal flaw could have escaped my fiery eye.
“His resume was false. He was not a student of B University of Technology at all. He didn’t even know how many campuses there were in B University of Technology.
“The kid looks pretty down-to-earth, and his skill level is ok.”
“He was very humble, and I didn’t expose him to his face. I sent him away after a little chat.”
“Good, thank big fly elder brother.”
When I interviewed for the job, I didn’t even consider that the degree could be faked. In Langyun, honesty and trustworthiness is an important part of the company culture, and the bosses have emphasized the importance of honesty in the company meetings for many times.
Wang Shuai technology again strong, I am afraid also with lang Yun. When I felt sorry for losing a good seedling, the mobile phone suddenly received a message from a strange number.
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