Blogger changed their interface, so now it looks funky to me. Not that it changes the posts in any way.

The big news is: I have accepted a job working at Exava. What is exava you ask? Well we are not publicly announcing anything yet, but I'll let people know more when I can say. It's a small startup in Mountain View and I'll be doing a lot of Java and web programming as you might expect. I will be starting next Monday. I'm excited about the work, it looks really interesting.

There was a heck of a hiring process for the job. First I answered an internet job posting on Monster. Then I was sent a programming test which was not easy to complete. Then I was sent another programming test which was even more difficult to complete. The programming problems were in Java and/or C++.(They asked for and I did them in both Java and C++ for extra credit). They involved some basic algorithms questions and some more difficult practical programming. Then finally they interviewed me and I accepted.

One of the interesting things is that the job will involve some more algorithms work than I've done lately. Typical business applications don't really require a deep knowledge of the most efficient data structures and algorithms, because they rely on class libraries and/or databases to provide a lot of the functionality. I can't remember the last time I really needed to write my own sorting routine(although I did one for this programming test).