We were given a MacBook in the beginning. Yesterday, appreciating my work, my manager gave me a MacMini to make my own server for testing purpose. I joined just two weeks ago. 😃

Wow, where are you working?

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@avicoder Symantec. :)

Nice :) employees come first!

So... when are you getting a real computer?

@freeridet I have a 3.2GHz, 8 gigs, 1 TB Lenovo Essentials personal laptop with a devRant sticker on it so I think I got that covered 😉

@varundey I love that your added the sticker part, it won't be considered a powerful machine without that devrant sticker

Nice!! I picked up a couple of old servers as well so I could learn how to use them.
My job is super generous!

Your boss knows how motivated and enabled workers are the best workers. Me likey

@mrmarbury hahaa Yeah they are super generous in this regard.

@varundey my company is the same. If we need a tool or hardware to accomplish a task, we get it. If it raises our productivity, we get it. Simple as that. It's the only way it works

@mrmarbury I'm quite fresh in the industry. Frankly speaking, I was overwhelmed by this :D

@varundey yeah, unfortunately most companies haven't learned that spending money for the right things will save money in the end and better throughput. For example by giving you a macmini for tests you didn't have to spend time figuring out a way to get access to a test environment or file tickets that would take days or weeks to be done. No meetings about if and how you would test etc. Multiply that time by your salary and offset that with the price for this box.

@mrmarbury wow. Thanks for putting things into perspective, really appreciate it!

@Pac23 the interview process is very thorough in Symantec. After you clear the first online test, they asked us to come to their office where they gave a sheet of paper in which you have to evaluate yourself in the specified areas like DSA/(C/C++)/DB/OS/SDLC/QA/Others(mention yourself) etc. Based on that and your resume, they'll set interviewers that are fit for your profile. My first interview went for about one hour and he touched all the topics of CS plus other frameworks on my resume. Second technical went for about the same period and for most of the part included DB questions and on python language (since it covers 90% of my resume). After this was the managerial round where I was asked my interests in open source etc and last was the HR interview. One thing to note here was that they will ask you about each and every technical word you have mentioned on your resume, be it a framework, an algorithm or FOSS. And they WILL know if you are faking it

@Pac23 this was a campus hiring. You can start applying from your pre final year though.

We use Mac minis for front end automation.

That's awesome.