Today again has been a very busy day. Google has this nice set of classes that all Nooglers take for the first 2 weeks. It gets Nooglers up to speed with the technologies and culture at Google. As you might have already guessed, I cannot reveal much about anything, but it suffices to say these classes are very very useful. But again there is far too much information (not that we are expected to know everything in one day, but I wanted to anyway ;-). We were given several books that are helpful in our professional career at Google. The greatest thing about Google is the work culture. I liked the fact that Googlers can work 20% of the time on any project. It lets your wander freely in the wild. No idea is too small. Actually brainstorming ideas is strongly encouraged. Engineers have a lot of flexibility even for the main project, and the mentoring is excellent. Simply put "no question is too dumb to ask" here at Google. There are no managers telling you what to do and any time someone needs help they just ask engineers if they like to work on it and never say "you have to do this". You can jump projects as often as you want, no questions asked! It helps you widen your skill set and helps you think differently...
Recently I had to go through the motions of getting a General Power of Attorney (GPA) document attested in San Francisco. I am an Indian by birth. My parents were trying to buy a house back in India for me. Since I did not want to travel to India they needed a GPA so that they can act on my behalf to sign all the documents required to buy the house. The problem however is that they needed it urgently because the seller lives in UK and wants to get all the things done quickly so he can go back. My parents send me a GPA document that they obtained from a lawyer. This is a document that will give the power to my parents to buy the said property in the document on my behalf. The lawyer said that I will have to get the document attested at an Indian Consulate in USA. The closest one for me is in SF and I can drive there in about an hour from where I live. So I though it will be like a day's work to get all the things done. I looked up at their website for the procedure t...
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