Rarely available Pictures(must see)

Rarely available Pictures................................

1) Tim Berners Lee -- Founder of the World Wide Web 

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2) Picture taken when microsoft was started 

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3) Steve Woznaik(sitting) and Steve Jobs of APPLE Computers.
He was three months late in filing a name for the business because he didn't get any better name for his new company.
So one day he told to the staff: " If I'll not get better name by 5 o'clcok today, our company's name will be anything he likes..." 
so at 5 o'clcok nobody comeup with better name, and he was eating APPLE that time...
so he keep the name of the company 'Apple Computers' 

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4) Bill Hewlett(L) and Dave Packard(R) of HP.
Behind them in the picture is the famous HP Garage.
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
And the winner was NOT Bill... the winner was Dave. 

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5) Ken Thompson (L)and Dennis Ritchie(R) ,creators of UNIX.
Dennis Ritchie improved on the B programming language and called it 'New B'.
B was created by Ken Thompson as a revision of the Bon programming language (named after his wife Bonnie)
He later called it C. 

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6) Larry Page(L) and Sergey Brin(R), founders of Google.
Google was originally named 'Googol'.
After founders (Stanford graduates) Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor...
they received a cheque made out to 'Google' !...
So they kept name as GOOGLE 

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7) Gordon Moore(L) and Bob Noyce(R) ,founders of Intel.
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company 'Moore Noyce'.
But that was already trademarked by a hotel chain...
So they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics. .. INTEL 

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8) Andreas Bechtolsheim , Bill Joy, Scott Mc Nealy and Vinod Khosla of SUN(StanfordUnivers ity Network) MicroSystems.
Founded by four StanfordUniversity buddies.
Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer;
Vinod Khosla recruited him;
Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it;
and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer... 
SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network . 

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9) Linus Torvalds of Linux Operating System Linus Torvalds originally used the Minix OS on his system which he replaced by his OS.
Hence the working name was Linux (Linus' Minix).
He thought the name to be too egotistical and planned to name it Freax (free + freak + x).
His friend Ari Lemmk encouraged Linus to upload it to a network so it could be easily downloaded.
Ari gave Linus a directory called linux on his FTP server, as he did not like the name Freax.
Linus like that directory name and he kept the name of his new OS to LINUX... 

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10) Picture taken when INFY was started. This picture was found in the album of the clerk who took this picture...
The picture was with that clerk only because it was his birthday and he just told everyone to stand together at one place to take a pic.
He borrow a camera from his friend and as he can not tell any of his boss to take pic, so he took pic by himself... even it was his birthday. 

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Latest CISCO Systems Placement Papers

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CAREERS@EMC

Interview Guide and Keys to Success

EMC hires the best. When we meet with applicants, our discussions focus on discovering the skills, traits, and behaviors that tell us who you are and how well you'll fit into our work environment. Be prepared to answer questions about your course work, projects, and work experience—especially to demonstrate your problem-solving skills, initiative, and adaptability.

Joseph M. Tucci

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer 
EMC Corporation

Joe Tucci is Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of EMC Corporation. Tucci has been EMC's Chairman since January 2006 and President and CEO since January 2001, one year after he joined the company as President and Chief Operating Officer. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of VMware Corporation. He is based at EMC's corporate headquarters in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.

Tucci has led EMC through a period of dramatic revitalization, continued market share gains, and sustained double-digit growth.

He has transformed EMC's business model from what was a near-exclusive focus on high-end storage platforms. With revenues of $20 billion in 2011 and more than 53,000 people worldwide, 

EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset – information – in a more agile, trusted, and cost-efficient way.

In 2011, Tucci oversaw the most aggressive new product introduction cycle in the company's history. Since 2003, he has spearheaded the investment of more than $14 billion in strategic acquisitions to fill out EMC's product portfolio, enter new market segments, and expand the company's addressable market opportunity. 

He has led EMC into multi-platform open software, expanded the company's marketplace beyond large enterprises to commercial and small-medium businesses, broadened the company's industry alliances, and established new selling, partnership and distribution channels. 

Over the same period, Tucci has strengthened EMC's management team with the integration of executives from other major technology companies. He has championed EMC's use of Six Sigma to improve its business processes and has engaged employees in the Total Customer Experience, EMC's commitment to consistently exceed customers' expectations for quality, service, innovation, and interaction. Acknowledging EMC's rejuvenation under Tucci's leadership, Barron's named him one of the world's Best CEOs in 2011.

Before joining EMC, Tucci directed the financial and operational rebirth of Wang Global during six years as its Chairman and CEO.

 At Wang, he guided the company through a rapid and successful emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and transformed the company from a midrange computer manufacturer into a worldwide leader in networked technology services and solutions.

 Under his leadership, Wang acquired and integrated ten companies from 1995 through 1999, and its market capitalization more than tripled. In June 1999, Wang was acquired by Getronics NV.

Prior to joining Wang in 1990, Tucci was President of U.S. Information Systems for Unisys Corporation, a position he assumed after the 1986 merger of Sperry and Burroughs that created Unisys.

 He began his career as a systems programmer at RCA Corporation and holds a bachelor's degree from Manhattan College and an MS in Business Policy from Columbia University.

He is one of 150 CEO members of The Business Roundtable and the former chairman of its Task Force on Education and the Workforce.

 He is one of nine chief executives who steer The Technology CEO Council, the IT industry's leading public policy advocacy organization, and is a member of the Executive Committee of TechNet, a network of CEOs who work to advance the U.S.'s global leadership in innovation.

 In addition, Tucci is a member of the Board of Directors of Paychex, Inc.; a member of the Board of Advisors of the Carroll School of Management at Boston College; a member of the Board of Trustees of Northeastern University; a member of the Board of Overseers, Columbia Business School; a member of the Advisory Board of Tsinghua University, in Beijing, China; and an Overseer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

February 2012

Do you have the skills of an exceptional performer?

Consider these sample questions:
Problem-solving

• Tell me about how you recently anticipated a problem before it occurred.
• Cite an instance when you had to solve a problem with little guidance or direction.
  

Teaming

• Describe a time when you put the needs of a group before your own when completing a task.
• Recount a situation when you had difficulties working with someone on a project. What did you do to improve the relationship?
  

Results-driven

• Tell me about a difficult or complex project where you provided realistic time frames for task completion and regularly updated management on progress.
• What goals do you have for your career? How do you plan to achieve those goals?
  

Accountability

• Cite an instance when a group you were leading failed or did not meet expectations. How did you take responsibility?
• Provide an example of when you had two projects competing for your time. How did you prioritize? Were you able to keep your commitment to both projects?
  

Initiative

• Tell me about a time when you sought ways to create and improve the way in which work gets done.
• When assigned a project how do you approach it? Do you seek to merely meet the objectives or do you make it your goal to go above and beyond? Give an example.
  

Adaptability

• Describe a situation from which you learned quickly and overcame adversity or failure. Give me an example of a time when the rules or structure of a project changed at the last minute. How did you react?
  

Integrity

• Give me an example of a situation where you admitted making a mistake. How did you approach the situation and what was the response?
• Recount an instance when your integrity was tested, (i.e., keeping a promise or confidence, being truthful).
  

Sense of urgency

• Describe an instance when you had to anticipate obstacles in your action plan. What contingency plans did you prepare? What was the result?
• Tell me about a situation when you faced demanding deadlines. What steps did you take to ensure you achieved your goals by the deadline?
  

Communication

• Provide an example of when you had to tailor a presentation or message for a certain group of people.
• Describe a situation when you successfully communicated with a difficult person(s) or circumstance?
  

Driving change

• Give me an example of a situation where you recognized the need for change. How did you adapt your style to obtain results?
• Recount a situation where you constructively challenged an established procedure or way of doing things.
  

Preparing for your interview

Preparation is the secret to a successful interview. Here's how you can prepare for and steer a winning meeting.

• Research our company — See our corporate profile for a summary of EMC's core businesses, markets served, our worldwide presence, and leadership as ranked by industry analysts.
  
  
• Leverage your intern/co-op experiences — Ask your manager for guidance, especially if you're an EMC intern.
  
  
• Dress like a professional — Wear appropriate business attire.
  
  
• Practice — Participate in mock and on-campus interviews. Practice responses to frequently asked questions.
  
  
• Ask questions — Some good ones: What kind of assignments might I expect in my first six months? How often are performance reviews given? What skills and characteristics are most important for this position and for the company? When should I expect to hear from you or should I contact you?
  
  
• Close effectively — Send a "thank you" e-mail, emphasizing your interest in the position. This is your chance to mention facts you omitted in the interview. Be sure to proof.   
  

HONEYWELL COMPANY PROFILE

"We are building a world that’s safer and more secure…More comfortable and energy efficient…
More innovative and productive
We are Honeywell."

Dave Cote is chairman and CEO of Honeywell, a $37 billion diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry; turbochargers; and performance materials. He was elected president, CEO, and a member of Honeywell's Board in February 2002, and named chairman of the Board on July 1, 2002.

Under Cote's leadership over the past decade, Honeywell has delivered strong growth in sales, earnings per share, segment profit, and cash flow. Honeywell has great positions in good industries and more than 50 percent of the company’s sales are outside the U.S.  Honeywell’s growth is driven by technologies that address global macro trends such as safety, security, energy efficiency and generation, and globalization. The company’s nearly 140,000 employees, including more than 20,000 scientists and engineers, are focused on developing innovative products and solutions that help Honeywell’s customers – and their customers – improve performance and productivity. 


In 2010, Cote was named by President Barack Obama to serve on the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. Cote was named co-chair of the U.S.-India CEO Forum by President Obama in 2009, and has served on the Forum since July 2005. In 2007, Cote received the Corporate Social Responsibility Award from the Foreign Policy Association, and in 2001, he received the Peter G. Peterson Award for Business Statesmanship from the Committee for Economic Development (CED) and the Distinguished Achievement Award from B’nai B’rith International in 2011.


Honeywell International is a Fortune 100  global diversified technology and manufacturing leader. 


Each of the company’s four businesses - Aerospace, Automation and Control Solutions, Transportation Systems, and Specialty Materials - has operations in India. Honeywell has set up state-of-the-art manufacturing and engineering operations for its automation, turbocharger and refining businesses and operates its global centers of excellence for research, product development and innovation in India.


Honeywell directly employs more than 10000 people based in Delhi, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Gurgaon, Madurai and several other cities. 
 
Honeywell’s presence in Pune includes the USD 200 million Honeywell Automation India Ltd.(HAIL), 


which is a listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and the National Stock Exchange of India Limited (NSE).


Set up in 1987 with manufacturing, design and engineering facilities spread over 36000 square feet in the industrial city of Pune, HAIL is a leader in providing integrated automation and software solutions with more than 2700 employees based in 8 offices in India. 


HAIL also has the unique distinction of being one of the first automation companies in India to be awarded dual certification of ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001
Also located out of Hingewadi, Pune is Honeywell Turbo Technologies Ltd (HTT) a part of Honeywell’s Transportation Systems business which is a worldwide leader and the leading manufacturer of automotive turbochargers.


Committed to providing technologically superior turbochargers, HTT is considered the supplier of choice by leading global engine and vehicle manufacturers. HTT is the first company in India to manufacture VNT™ turbochargers.   


Honeywell’s VNT™ turbochargers, when used on engines with common rail direct injection technology can improve fuel economy by up to 20 per cent, increase low speed engine boost and reduce emissions.


In Gurgaon, Honeywell has teams supporting the Aerospace, Specialty Materials, Security, Life Safety and ADI business groups.


A new Life Safety factory has been commissioned in Gurgaon in March 2008 while the Global Customer Support Center (GCSC) supports Honeywell businesses worldwide by helping them create value for their customers and stakeholders through off-shoring solutions.


UOP India, a Honeywell company, also based out of Gurgaon is an international supplier and licensor of process technology, catalysts, adsorbents, process plants, and consulting services to the petroleum and chemicals industry. In India, UOP licensed its first technology in the 1930s. Today, UOP has licensed technology in every existing and new refinery in the country. 

Honeywell Technology Solutions (HTSL) is an integral corporate arm providing value to Honeywell's businesses and customers by providing technology, product and business solutions meeting global standards of quality, innovation and lifetime performance. Headquartered out of Bangalore, HTSL has centers in Shanghai, Beijing, Brno, Hyderabad and Madurai. One of the larger R&D outfits established by multi-national corporations in India, HTSL is a SEI CMMI Level 5 company, and has also attained PCMM Level 5 maturity. 


Honeywell Electrical Devices and Switches (ED&S) based out of Chennai was the first company in India to introduce modular electric switches through its ‘MK’ brand name. In 2007, the company commissioned its second manufacturing facility in the country at Hope Town near Dehradun. 

MICROSOFT Placement Paper 2009 (Technical)

MICROSOFT Placement

1. In a X's and 0's game (i.e. TIC TAC TOE) if you write a program for this give a fast way to generate the moves by the computer. I mean this should be the fastest way possible.

ANS:- The answer is that you need to store all possible configurations of the board and the move that is associated with that. Then it boils down to just accessing the right element and getting the corresponding move for it. Do some analysis and do some more optimization in storage since otherwise it becomes infeasible to get the required storage in a DOS machine.

2. I was given two lines of assembly code which found the absolute value of a number stored in two's complement form. I had to recognize what the code was doing. Pretty simple if you know some assembly and some fundas on number representation.

3. Give a fast way to multiply a number by 7.

4. How would go about finding out where to find a book in a library. (You don't know how exactly the books are organized beforehand).

5. Linked list manipulation.

6. Tradeoff between time spent in testing a product and getting into the market first.

7. What to test for given that there isn't enough time to test everything you want to.

8. First some definitions for this problem: a) An ASCII character is one byte long and the most significant bit in the byte is always '0'. b) A Kanji character is two bytes long. The only characteristic of a Kanji character is that in its first byte the most significant bit is '1'. Now you are given an array of a characters (both ASCII and Kanji) and, an index into the array. The index points to the start of some character. Now you need to write a function to do a backspace (i.e. delete the character before the given index).

9. Give a one-line C expression to test whether a number is a power of 2. [No loops allowed - it's a simple test.]

10. Given an array of characters which form a sentence of words, give an efficient algorithm to reverse the order of the words (not characters) in it.

11. Given an array of integers, find the contiguous sub-array with the largest sum.
ANS. Can be done in O(n) time and O(1) extra space. Scan array from 1 to n. Remember the best sub-array seen so far and the best sub-array ending in i.

12. Given an array of length N containing integers between 1 and N, determine if it contains any duplicates.

ANS. [Is there an O(n) time solution that uses only O(1) extra space and does not destroy the original array?]

13. Sort an array of size n containing integers between 1 and K, given a temporary scratch integer array of size K.

ANS. Compute cumulative counts of integers in the auxiliary array. Now scan the original array, rotating cycles! [Can someone word this more nicely?]

14. C++ ( what is virtual function ? what happens if an error occurs in constructor or destructor. Discussion on error handling, templates, unique features of C++. What is different in C++, ( compare with Unix).

15. Given a list of numbers ( fixed list) Now given any other list, how can you efficiently find out if there is any element in the second list that is an element of the first list (fixed list).

AMAZON.COM PROFILE

Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN), is a leading global Internet company and one of the most trafficked Internet retail destinations worldwide.

Amazon is one of the first companies to sell products deep into the long tail by housing them in numerous warehouses and distributing products from many partner companies. Amazon directly sells or acts as a platform for the sale of a broad range of products. These include books, music, videos, consumer electronics, clothing and household products. The majority of Amazon’s sales are products sold by Amazon, though many are from third-party sellers.

Amazon was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It has direct international operations in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom.

Since 2004, Amazon has begun to rapidly expand its web services arsenal. Products such as Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) andAmazon S3 (Simple Storage System), Amazon Route 53 have been large successes.

Some of Amazon’s recent acquisitions include Shopbop (2006),Abebooks (2008), Zappos (2009), LOVEFiLM (2011).

As of Q1 2011, Amazon has approximately 137 million active customers worldwide. It was also reported that there are 2 million merchants selling on Amazon equaling a third of the total listings. North America currently represents 55.4% of sales with the other 44.6% in the International market.

CEO:

Jeffrey Preston "Jeff" Bezos (/beɪzəs/, born January 12, 1964) is an American entrepreneur who played a key role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, Inc., an online merchant of books and later of a wide variety of products. Under his guidance, Amazon.com became the largest retailer on the World Wide Web and the model for Internet sales.

Locations

Amazon has offices, fulfillment centers, customer service centers and software development centers across North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia.

[edit]Headquarters

Amazon.com's former headquarters in the former U.S. Public Health Hospital (Merchant Marine & Indians) in Beacon Hill, Seattle.

The company's global headquarters are in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood. The European headquarters are in Luxembourg's capital, Luxembourg City. Amazon also has headquarters in Miami, Florida.

Amazon.com's new headquarters building in South Lake Union, Seattle, Washington.

[edit]Software development centers

While much of Amazon's software development occurs in Seattle, the company employs software developers in centers across the globe. Some of these sites are run by an Amazon subsidiary called A2Z Development.

• North America

• USA: Cambridge, MA; Charleston, SC; Cupertino, CA; Orange County, CA;San Francisco, CA; San Luis Obispo, CA;,Seattle, WA; and Tempe, AZ
• Canada: Vancouver, British Columbia and Mississauga, Ontario

• Europe

• UK: Slough (England) and Edinburgh (Scotland)
• Ireland: Dublin
• Romania: Iaşi

• Asia

• India: Bangalore, Chennai, and Hyderabad
• Japan: Shibuya (Tokyo)
• China: Beijing

• Africa

• South Africa: Cape Town

[edit]Call Centers

• USA: Kennewick, WA; Huntington, WV; Grand Forks, ND
• India: Hyderabad
• South Africa: Cape Town
• the Philippines: Convergys Cebu, Convergys Bacolod

Amazon Prime

Amazon Prime is a service of free two-day shipping on all eligible purchases, for a flat annual fee, as well as discounted one-day shipping rates. Amazon launched the program in the contiguous United States in 2005, in Japan, the United Kingdom and Germany in 2007, and in France (as "Amazon Premium") in 2008.

Amazon Prime membership also provides the instant streaming of movies and TV shows at no additional cost, as of February 2011.In November 2011, it was announced that Prime members have access to the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, which allows users to borrow certain popular titles for free, up to one book a month, with no due date.