An exciting last year in college and my awesome first job

Its been a long time since I last updated my blog. The reason is not that I didnt want to or that I didnt have time for it. I just didnt do it. I have thought about a post numerous times, but have never actually written it. So today I thought, lets do it :)

A lot of things have happened since my last post.

The last year in college was pretty exciting! Got two gold medals (:D :D) and we won the overall team trophy at Envisage'11 (as a result of which, quite surprisingly, we featured on the home page of the college website as well ;)).

And after I got placed in the first company I applied for on-campus(Microsoft),  the Amazon-g trip and the free (!!) trip to California for the Facebook interview, I finally joined Google (as a Software Engineer :D) and here I am at Bangalore, writing this post from my new MacBook Pro (;))!

To be very honest, I was a bit disappointed to land up at Bangalore. I was almost ready for Hyderabad. But  2 months later, I dont think I could have been happier. Bangalore is awesome. I had heard some great stuff about the weather here, but there is nothing like actually experiencing it yourself. You wake up each morning and breath fresh cold air, you sleep late at night with awesome weather around you. It all feels so great!!
Its only when you go out on streets that you feel the pollution is a bit too much. It is when u r struck in traffic for a really long time that you feel a bit disappointed, but then like all places around the world, Bangalore is not perfect. But I like it!!

Google is just amazing! I am in a great team and I really feel like I've got exactly what I wanted. I am in the mapmaker team (:D), which allows you to update the ever-changing maps. To enable users to edit every aspect of a map is a very challenging problem and team at Bangalore is working really well to solve it. There are a great bunch of passionate Software Engineers here and sometimes you dont mind working late at nights or in the weekends when you feel a little more effort on your side could make so many millions of users of your product happy!

Google and Bangalore seem to be a deadly combination :)

Well to conclude this post, the times gone by have been exciting and the future seems to be better ;)