Unsuccessful

So I tried to take the exam of Nokia-Siemens. At first I did not have the intention of joining their company, I just want to take their exam to prepare myself on my future endevours in exam-taking. However all that changed after their manager, which is from Hungary, finished his talk. He is a very funny guy while discussing what their company do and what they need, and the career path one can take. I was really sold to them. In a way I wanted to pass the exam. I did study for about a week on Java and I felt comfortable that I can answer the exam and pass it!

I failed. Miserably.

The first part of the exam is composed of general programming questione, more like an IQ test for programmers. The 1st question asked for an algo on computing a prime number. That is also where I made my first (and maybe fatal) mistake. I instead computed for an odd/even number! And to make it worse, I realized it when I got home. Then there is a question regarding arranging the shapes and I totally also dissed it too! Sad.

That meant I was not really prepared and Im a bit rusty on thinnking about algo on problems. The exam have not even included sorting and searching algorithms! The horror it may have brought. The lesson of the story is I have to study more. Review. Review. Review.

How about the Java centric questions? Gahd, another point of misery. I was able to maybe not get totally lost but it is still no good. There are questions that I really dont know the answers or are not sure because of the breadth and depth of the Java language. I have not programmed Java for quite a long time and it doesn't help that I dont have any programming projects that can hone my skills.

It was a sad 2 day realization for me. I am officially lost on this.

What will be my future, it looks uncertain. But I have to risk one more time.