30 minutes of fighting with Google of Vietnamese guy

With a bright smile with the title of Vietnam Typical Young Face in 2015, Le Yen Thanh said, he is one of three members who will go to Google to practice in June.

I made an appointment to meet Le Yen Thanh on the occasion when the boy received the typical Vietnam Young Face Award in Hanoi. Although he spent a long day with many activities with the delegation, the boy kept on his lips a fresh smile and friendly personality of the people of the Cuu Long River.

Not long ago, in an interview, the male student of the School of Information Technology, University of Natural Sciences (Ho Chi Minh City National University) - Le Yen Thanh - shared his cherished ambition and affirmed that he will show up. Realize these ideas. One of them is collecting more prizes, seeking opportunities to work at large foreign companies and corporations.

Saying it is done, three years after setting a goal for him, the boy born in 1994 proved somewhat vague that the dream could not be done.

Try to reach the "giant" technology

Apart from being one of the 10 typical young Vietnamese faces voted by the Central Committee of Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, Yen Thanh also built a great fortune of useful technology products such as management software. students, enrollment in school .

Among them, the highlight is Busmap program - city bus with more than 70,000 uses. This product brings the boy the first prize in the HCMC Young Computer Contest 2013 .

The owner of these products is also a member of the Vietnam team who reached the final round of the 2016 ACM / ICPC International Student Programming Competition and one of three young people selected to Google to practice in June of the year. now on.

Unable to hide the joy of sharing this, Yen Thanh said, this is a key goal for the boys from the early years of university.

To reach the company dubbed the " giant " in the world technology village, An Giang village boy has equipped himself with the knowledge block, and no less experience since he set foot in the university gate. .

Besides knowledge of programming, Yen Thanh actively trains English communication skills and sharp thinking ability in all areas.

Talking about the process of being accepted by Google, Thanh said, he learned about the internship experience from his siblings. All procedures are focused right from the submission of self-introduction documents.

"My submission to Google only includes CV (resume). Since the employer often scans the information in it, besides the name and age, I focus on listing the most outstanding achievements above. , then came the extra achievement "- Thanh revealed.

After the application was approved, the boy continued to go through a 45-minute online interview with a Google expert.

Referring to this "brain damage" screen, Yen Thanh said, after greeting and introducing the name, the employer started going directly to the qualification test. In the first 30 minutes, a Google representative asked questions that were deeply rooted in the field of registered candidates.

The questions Thanh received were focused on algorithms and theories to demonstrate logical thinking ability, knowledge of computers, computing .

" Armed with a lot of related knowledge, but I was quite surprised by many questions from Google. Most of them are outside my preparation," Thanh recalled.

In addition to testing qualifications and knowledge, employers also pay attention to the self-confident, responsive reflexes of candidates when answering questions.

" After completing the relevant professional questions, Google representatives wanted to know where I would choose to practice in their offices. Without thinking, I asked again: 'Am I selected? "They are quite surprised and laugh at their answers," Thanh said.

The boy added, after passing the online interview, the candidate will go through a round of live phone interviews. The criterion of this round is for Google to check once more the candidate's English communication skills, before deciding to issue a visa and send congratulatory letters.

Rising from yourself, rejecting many exciting opportunities

Fostering great ambitions, not difficult to understand when Thanh talked about his journey to information technology.

In grade 3, Thanh was facilitated by his family to access computers. Initially electronic, but not interested in these games, the boy is gradually curious about the operation configuration of the machine. To answer questions, the boy was born in 1994 to start tinkering, searching for documents online and learning about this area.

Besides, the influence of scientific films is the driving force of Yen Thanh's passion for computers. In the beginning, the boy always wanted to explore and study software with high applicability to daily life. This is also the answer to the question of why programs and software of Thanh get ideas from reality.

With studiousness, from high school, Thanh wrote his own programs for the school. Sharing a happy memory, Thanh said, he used to create a student management software that lists weekly class rankings, violates statistics and assigns each student behavior.

" List of violating students is recorded in the software. That day, due to fear of friends, I do not dare tell anyone who is the author of this software " - 9X shared.

In order to foster their dreams, from the second year of university, Yen Thanh has focused on accumulating practical experience. Outside of class time, the boy actively applied for internship at major software companies in the South.

By the third year, 9X had the opportunity to practice programming for Zalo application, (one of VNG's products, voted as Asia's most innovative mobile application on Techinasia 2013).

" In addition to providing useful experiences, deep understanding of the theory, early practice also helps me to know many older brothers and sisters. They are always ready to teach, help before any difficulties, as well as gender. give me attractive working opportunities from many parts of the world "- Yen Thanh shared.

Also from here, the desire to work at large foreign corporations and companies has become increasingly fierce. After some internship, the boy received a job offer from local companies. However, because he likes to explore and wishes to try new experiences, the boy says his refusal and looks for international challenges.

Sharing the feeling these days, Yen Thanh said, quite excited and eager to wait until the internship in Silicon Valley.

" Perhaps it will be a very interesting experience. I want to learn more at this technology company. In the short term, I practice at Google as planned before. All the future, please for the future to decide " - the boy confided.

In high school years, Yen Thanh continuously collected for himself dozens of small and large awards at provincial and national level, related to informatics.

During the student time, 9X constantly participated in competitions at home and abroad.

Up to now, Thanh has had a collection of nearly 100 awards and medals. To preserve these achievements, 9X designed for itself an award-winning integration software after every milestone.

Besides, this young man is also a "seed" in multinational volunteer programs such as Japan - Japan Youth Student Exchange, volunteer activities with students of Korea National University of Pukyong, member of the Executive Board. University of Natural Sciences (Ho Chi Minh City National University) .