Mauritius has always been a country where people glorify politicians beyond the reasonable. And this is what drives me to do what I do.Ĩ November 2007: Facebook: A Mauritian tragedy?įor a few hours in November 2007, Facebook was blocked by Mauritian ISPs at the request of the ICTA while they were contacting the Facebook admins to delete the false profiles of a few Mauritian politicians (including the Prime Minister.) I wrote at that time that I didn’t like the smell of that and the whole issue felt like someone was being overzealous. All in all, that unsollicited interview from the Googleplex confirmed something I’ve have believed since I was a kid: I am not half bad. Of course, I’m still a fan of Google… but maybe a little less than in 2007. I don’t know if I would have really enjoyed working in such a major company as Google. Since launching Knowledge Seven Ltd, I’ve realised that I love being my own boss. Of course, I didn’t do that well (or else I would have been in the Googleplex instead of being in Quatre-Bornes) but I’m happy I went through this. A few days later, someone else from Google called me and I had to endure a very long and relatively tough phone interview. I said yes, got the questions and managed to answer them satisfactorily. In the end, I accepted because (i) I was going to be paid for that (ha!), (ii) I had developed the outline for the Enterprise Application Development module when I was at the University with the view to teach it one day and (iii) I love teaching.Īrgh! One hour left! Are my slides ready? And my rotin bazaar?įiled Under: Education, Knowledge7, Linux, Mauritius, News, Programming, Technology is five years old today (Part 2)ġ8 March 2009 By Avinash Meetoo 7 CommentsĪs promised two days ago, today I’ll briefly revisit a few posts from 2007-2008 on this blog:Ģ9 April 2007: I’ve been interviewed by Google…Īt the end of April 2007, something particularly amazing happened to me: I got a phone call from the Googleplex! A lady informed me that Google has found out about me (how? Using Google maybe!) and asked me if I was keen to answer a few questions.
I was a little bit unwilling to take up that module initially, so soon after leaving the University of Mauritius and still in the process of launching my own company. I’m still the Managing-Director of Knowledge Seven Ltd :-) Of course, I’ll only do that on a part-time basis, once per week (Wednesday from 16:30 – 19:30) for the next 15 weeks. At 16:30 today, I’ll start teaching Enterprise Application Development to MSc Advanced Computing students of the CDAC School of Advanced Computing, a joint venture between the University of Mauritius and the Center for Development of Advanced Computing in India.
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