My resume and maybe a letter for Dr. Lee (Google)
Dear Dr. Lee, I\’m sorry about interrupting your speech in NTU today. And I\’m sorry about the following information if that make you feel bad, because I think I will if I were you.
You havn\’t gave the correct answer that most listeners would like to know in that speech. Maybe you were nervous, or you got some hints from your company that not to talk about sensitive topics. But most information you gave, I had known it through the book, The Google Story, or your proud, Google. It seems that I should find the answers myself, so this is my resume.Well, as you already know, my Calculus and Algorithm are bad. I must stay at school one more month after graduation just because Algorithm (Two more months for Calculus in the past…). All the clues proof that I won\’t be a good programer. That\’s not the only bad news.
The second, I need to solve military problem after graduation. Because I was born in twenty years latter after you, I\’m a man and I live in Taiwan. Maybe this resume should be sent after two years. But you know, people like me don\’t like to wait.
One of your staff gave me some hints in the discussion panel. What I had done and what I could do for Google ?
What I had done?
I\’m not a student in NTU or any famous school. I was a student in night school since sixteen. Because I don\’t have a rich father, like Bill. I had worked for living about 9 years. What I had done?
Convenient store clerk, operator in production line of electronic board, customer support of computer company, warehouse management of a publisher, an computer operator in an office and a foundation, computer teacher in a cram class of children, computer engineer in one another publisher and one another foundation, author of four books which talk about open sourced software and some sales experiences came from insurance and direct sales. I\’m a freelancer now and take the cases about web programing (PHP) and a webmaster of following websites:
http://twpug.net/
http://www.osobiz.com/xoops/
http://oss.tw/
What I could do for Google?
Nothing. Because you would like to attract programmers and I hate programing. But I could do something that your programmers hate to do and such job need some concepts about programing.
I could always do something useful some moment latter after entering a fresh enviornment. I could give lots of crazy ideas base on the real demands if your programmers have no idea what to do in new quarters.
I only have about three(or fewer) months to take a full time job, the reason was mentioned above. This letter is attempting to proof if I\’m valuable for you to book the future of my life.
*This mail was published in my blog, too. You could find more information about me there:
http://blog.twpug.org/index.php?blogId=1
Best Regards.
–
Finjon Kiang
tokimeki 01:04:14 on 2006 年 04 月 28 日 Permalink
雖然我沒去聽演講,也不會瘋到想去谷歌都履歷,不過看了你的回應,我想有些基本面的問題要重視:
1. 程式設計很有趣,但不是每個人都可以做
2. 同第一點,OLPC也是基於同樣的理由,我個人反對
3. 世界人口很多,多到小布希要提前考慮火星移民,不需要再讓地球進行自殺式的資訊發展
4. 同第三點,為什麼要接受全球化單一價值?
kiang 02:44:00 on 2006 年 04 月 28 日 Permalink
其實看不太懂…
基本上,我想任何問題都可以從許多觀點看待,別把問題看的太嚴重;若要想的極端些,也許自己的價值都會被過度否定。生命會自己尋找出路
tokimeki 18:37:04 on 2006 年 04 月 28 日 Permalink
1, 2 講的是不要製造百年後的垃圾
3, 4 講的是文化衝突造成全銀河系的問題
你那最後一句是侏儸紀公園的名言…
但我仍要說,那是電影,實際上生命也會再不之不覺中走向絕路…
kiang 19:15:03 on 2006 年 04 月 28 日 Permalink
你的想法會決定你的出路,想的太遠、而且過於悲觀,從我的角度看這不是好事;試著想想愛迪生發明電燈,他創造了經濟繁榮,也同時造成自然浩劫(因為人們能夠深入過去不敢探索的地方),如果他當時想著後者,那麼我們眼前的世界會立即改觀。
你可以輕易的找到另外一種樂觀的解釋方式,生命只有一次,為什麼總要讓自己將時間花在那些遙遠、不著邊際的地方?
tokimeki 19:38:04 on 2006 年 04 月 29 日 Permalink
我沒說樂觀不好,我只是不否定悲觀的未來而已!
我也很喜歡樂觀看法,可惜的是現實中產生的結果讓我樂觀不起來…
作人要不愧於天地,盡人事而聽天命,倒行逆施只會讓後面的人走的更困難而已…
我們可以百年樹人,也可以百年兵刃,我只是不想選擇後者而已…
St 20:46:37 on 2006 年 04 月 30 日 Permalink
看完了之後
找到了以下重點 …
沒有個有錢的老爸
可是我看你還滿常帶妳女朋友到處玩 , 生活應該過得還不錯吧 ~
工作的經歷
或許你可以提一些工作經驗 , 或是完成過什麼值得驕傲的事蹟 …
不喜歡寫程式
那為什麼要寫程式 , 可以去做自己喜歡做的事情 , 或是為你的工作找出樂趣 ~
有瘋狂的IDEA
可以提出一些你的想法 , 讓 Dr.Lee 參考參考 …
知道 google 來台徵才的消息
有點意願想去看看的 , 剛好不在台北 …
應徵 …
我想我的技術還沒到家吧 ~
kiang 00:42:31 on 2006 年 05 月 02 日 Permalink
經常到處玩,那是沒把錢當作生活的唯一目標;你要知道,年輕人總是這個樣
這封信其實沒有那麼認真看待求職這件事情,光是目前的狀況自己都很難接受找到一個固定工作,我也不希望對於新工作無法交代;目的是什麼?也許是好玩,也許如同你接下來會想到的一樣,當然,也許都不是。
雖然我常常出餿主意,但基本上,我還是比較喜歡基於實際的需求設想解決方案,而非一個人空想。
有時候想想,如果這樣的嘗試無傷大雅,何樂而不為?
620 13:43:03 on 2006 年 05 月 12 日 Permalink
google要的是有點子,可以自己動手把它做出來的人.
而不是 『我有好點子,我很有經驗,你們替我coding吧』 的人.
或許他們的文化並不適合一個想從事技術工作但不喜歡coding的人
kiang 22:38:57 on 2006 年 05 月 17 日 Permalink
Nothing would be match if you don’t try it.
Anyway, I’ve tried, as the result you could find. I won’t stay. What about you, guy?