Stuart Twombly
"I stay up late, and I talk to the moon
And I can't stop telling him all about you
Wonder if you do the same thing I do
These four white walls they know more than my friends
They watch me type messages I'll never send
This is the plac...
The next morning Team Lyle was in their office listening to the instructions of the first task.
"Good morning, interns. Today marks the first of several challenges through which your team will show their merits. While internally dogfooding a new product, a number of Googlers reported a bug that disabled their audio. All two million lines of that code are in the source files. Your job: find the bug." The video said before closing out, and they got to work.
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"Okay, we should check the user reports." Neha spoke up first.
"Scan the logs for any red flags." Yo-Yo added.
"See what exceptions were thrown." Stuart added in, as they all got to the glass, and grabbed dry erase markers.
"I always start by drawing up strategies to sift through the code." Lyle input.
Emily sighed and put her ear buds in to listen to music, knowing she wouldn't get work done with them talking. She found a spot between Stuart and Lyle, quickly getting to work.
As she worked Stuart kept bumping over her, and writing over her work. She rolled her eyes, and after the fifth time he did it she grabbed and eraser and started erasing his crap, and he glared at her, and she glared back.
"What the hell was that for?" He asked her, ripping out one of her ear buds.
"Look at my work. What do you see?" She asked, pointing to it, and they all looked at it.
"Sloppiness?" Stuart said, shrugging.
"No, what you see is my elegant work being trampled by your crappy hand writing." She said, glaring at him, turning back to erase it and start over as she put her ear buds back in, only to hear yelling a moment later.
"Would you please stop!" Yo-Yo yelled and she turned to them, taking out her ear buds again, as everyone else turned too.
"No, we're working." Nick told the younger one of the two.
"No, we're working." Yo-Yo corrected him.
"Yeah, and that's a sharpie, by the way, genius." Stuart told Billy, who turned to look where he'd been writing at.
"That's my fault." Billy said, licking his fingers and trying to wipe it off. But because it was a sharpie, it didn't budge. "Go ahead and wash that..."
"Look, guys, I'm sorry, but you're not helping." Neha said, walking over to the two older men, who clearly had no idea what they were doing. "You're saying a lot of words really fast that mean nothing. To find the bug, we need to scan the user logs and review the code until we find the programmer's mistake. It's the only way." Neha explained as everyone else nodded along, sitting around, while Emily kept going at it on the board, not letting the talking behind her distract her from doing what needed to be done.
