Down the memory lane

Three years is a long time, specially in the field of technology. I attended my first technical interview three years back and even now i remember the questions i was asked. I couldn’t forget those just because it was my first interview and more importantly i think its because i couldn’t get through it.

Now after three years, when me and two of my friends were discussing about interviews in general, the question i was asked in my first interview came to my mind. You might see me as a dumb person not to answer that but i am pretty sure many won’t be able answer it either . It was ” What does Hypertext and Markup mean in HTML ?”. All these years i don’t know why i didn’t bother to find out and after neither of my friends could convince me i googled for the answer and finally got it. Hypertext is text which contains links to other texts and markup is the process of taking ordinary text and adding extra symbols that tells a browser how to display the text.

I am afraid how many years the question i was asked about an year back in the oracle’s final round of interview will haunt me. I was asked to design the database for cricinfo.com website. I couldn’t manage it without errors and bang came the reply “You can leave”. I know i was just not good enough on that day.

Now all i can say is it gives me immense pleasure in doing things people say you cannot do. I have experienced it twice and that keeps me going.