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Gayle Laakman McDowell

Venue : EEE Auditorium                                      Time : 1430 hrs                                      Date : 26th February 2012

The optimist says the glass is half full. The pessimist, half empty. The fanatic thinks our glass in question is completely full, even though it isn’t.  (Speaking of which, arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty misses the point, which is this: the bartender cheated you) Anyway, an entrepreneur sees the glass as undervalued by half its potential. So, what would a coding virtuoso say? Maybe she would work on a heuristic algo that predicts the price and future value of the glass and if you finished before her, would hire you at a Silicon Valley enterprise?

Like our optimist and pessimist here, Gayle Laakman McDowell has participated in over 700 coding interviews from both sides of the desk. She holds a bachelor's and master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from The Wharton School. Having worked at Microsoft, Google and Apple, she is cognizant of the subtleties in the employee hiring mechanism. 

Through Cracking the Coding Interview (which is in its 5th edition now) and The Google resume, Gayle has given tech aficionados a taste of interview etiquettes and challenges: a map to every software junkie’s dream. She is also founder and CEO of Career Cup, one of the most popular domains (www.careercup.com)among job-seekers that offers an enormous collection of interview questions, videos and a wide list of services including resume reviews and mock interviews.

History will be kind to Pragyan’12 because it has already written it. In other words, Pragyan’12 presents a rendezvous with the coding veteran herself - Ms Gayle Laakman McDowell.