All posts by Fernando Carrillo Castro

Huge comic book fan, geek by choice
Motivational, Personal

Watch me grow rich

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My gramps was a wealthy man, when I moved to Venezuela he retired from his main jobs, to live of his rents, he was confident he will be able to live of that and have a hobby on the big farm he had.

Well, after a few years with the inflation that Venezuela had, it was impossible for everybody to live off his rents, so he decided to start working again.

When I asked why did he come out of retirement, he explained me that but he also said to me: “Watch me grow rich…again”

CS, University

PD 2nd round

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So I had a second interview with PD, first interview went OK but they @ the end, the job opening didn’t come through, so after a few months another recruiter contacted me and we started another process.

This second interview it was with a couple of MX guys, they asked a lot of questions regarding Java basics, OO on Java, keywords, threads and stuff like that, pretty simple…and if I remember correctly, they said that polymorphism could be done with overload and overwrite; something that has come up quite popular.

This is something I discussed with LACS one time because I was curious about it, he told me that the idea has become popular but he thought the same as me, is not really polymorphism when you do and overload. He even said that there was polymorphism a @compile-time and @execution-time, according to this new line that wasn’t as close to the original OOP.

University

Extra stuff

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Normally I give the chance to get some extra points with some extra effort.These are the items that I consider are worth of some extra points.
Books:
  • Read weekly at least 40 pages and provide a report of the highlights.The book could be about personal finances, self-improvement or computer sciences.No scale given.
  • Here is the list.
Interview question:
  • An online based test that shows a brain teaser or a code problem or a code snippet that must be solved in under 20 minutes.I take questions from my time as a part of the recruitment team on oracle and some books.Each question has a time limit of 20 minutes.
LinkedIn:
  • They must have at least the same number of connection as the persons attending the last day and a full profile.
HackerRank:
  • Undergrad=Every 100 hackos >100 is 1 point
  • Grad=Every 200 hackos >100 is 1 point
Duolingo
  • Undergrad=A weekly assignment, each week the number of exp points increases.
  • Grad=A weekly assignment of 200 exp points
  • The winner takes 1 point every week.
Cashflow 101
  • They have to beat me 2 out of 3 games.
  • The doctor is not allowed.
Other Courses:
  • Courses from Udemy, Coursera, EdX and BigDataUniversity.
P.S. Note I never give more than 15 extra points.