It’s been a year
On July 1st of 2004 i.e. last year, I turned from an intern to a full-time employee at Yahoo!.
Wait a minute, one whole year is already over! OMG!
Hmm.
A while ago, there was an internal discussion on why people have worked at Y! for years and years and still stick around. So, I started to think of my reasons on why I like it here…
The single biggest motivating factor for me is the smart people here. I remember reading somewhere that “Great programming is not about great pieces of code. It’s about being surrounded by smart people”. It aptly describes my experience at Y!. The amazing part is that most people I’ve met here don’t see the difference between work and fun. They just have a ball at what they do. And I always learn something interesting everyday from them.
The second reason is that there’s something exciting going on here every single day. For example, the My Web 2.0 Social Search that was announced just a few days ago, and the Maps API that was released yesterday…
There’s excitement in my work too – there are too many projects coming up at work that I have less and less time to spend on my other activities which is a bit disappointing but I guess you can’t have it all 
Coming back to Buzz, for which I’ve been the sole engineer for over a year, did you know it has a related billboard at Times Square in New York City right now? 
( Note: Erik has more photos )
That’s right, Buzz is what generated that data for that billboard
Contrary to the easy-going lifestyle that you might have heard, I’ve been through many all-nighters but I’m better now and never gonna do that again 
As the Chinese saying goes “May you live in interesting times”. That’s true more now than ever before in this computing era. I’m just happy to be in one of the centres where many of these interesting events are taking place and get to be a part of it.
As my tagline (in my internal profile) goes : Live. Life. Work. Yahoo.
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July 1st, 2005 at 4:32 pm
Congratulations!
So when ‘n where is the party? : )
July 1st, 2005 at 4:47 pm
Congratulations Swaroop.
Great to know you have enjoyed the year.
I wish you enjoy more and achieve more in the days to come by!
Have a rockin time!
July 1st, 2005 at 5:39 pm
You were the SOLE engineer on Buzz for over a year?
Damn! You people DO do cool stuff in Yahoo Bangalore!
P.S: Excuse the consecutive “do”‘s in that sentence
July 1st, 2005 at 10:11 pm
CONGRATS swaroop
May Y! continue motivating and inspiring you.
July 1st, 2005 at 11:26 pm
Hey, Congratulations!
It is very important that you enjoy your work otherwise it seems to be a burden. I am glad you are enjoying it. Keep it up!
July 2nd, 2005 at 2:47 am
@Niara: When are you free?
@Nitin, @Angeline, @Tanvi: Thank you all
@Gavri: I _still_ am the sole engineer unless you are interested in joining since new positions have opened up
July 2nd, 2005 at 3:28 am
Congrats dude.
and I am glad that u are one of them.
Very few people are lucky enough that “they don’t see the difference between work and fun”
July 3rd, 2005 at 12:50 pm
Congrats dude
July 3rd, 2005 at 4:50 pm
@Gavri: Since we were talking about cool work… did you know that [Gopal](http://t3.dotgnu.info) and [Arun](http://www.livejournal.com/users/acmurthy/) worked with Rasmus on a [core part of PHP 5.1](http://slashdot.org/~Gopal.V/journal/110218)?
… see the [NOTICE file of APC](http://cvs.php.net/co.php/pecl/apc/NOTICE?r=3.9) for more details.
July 4th, 2005 at 9:04 am
Swaroop, I was serious.
: )
July 4th, 2005 at 7:43 pm
@Swaroop: Thanks. Now another two blogs I have to read every time I come to office in the morning.
Filed under the Yahoo folder.
P.S: Wow! Someone actually uses the Slashdot Journalling option
July 5th, 2005 at 1:25 pm
Hey that’s gr8….CONGRATS bro
Hope u njoy ur work the same way in the years to come
wishin u good luck
n obviously waitin for a grand treat
July 29th, 2005 at 10:03 am
Congratulation Swaroop.