Yahoo! The "could be" and "Not to Be!"

Phew.....

I've quit the job now, been over a month, haven't taken a break from never-ending home-office-jam routine for over three years. I would love a break of doing nothing but sleep and relax and travel and play drums. I hope i get that luxury. I cant afford to stay out of job for too long either, I got loans to pay.

I have just been taking interviews with Yahoo!, Its been 6 technical rounds of interviews, i think, i've done fairly well, I haven't recieved an offer yet, But i hope, that when (or if) i do, i get to work on perl.

perl's my favorite these days, i favor it over PHP which is something i've been writing for a while.
There are other languages of course that i like but don't find enough jobs on them back here. I like Ruby, its a fun language much like perl, I prefer it over python, I like python 'cause its clean.

If you're interested in cracking Yahoo! jobs, I wouldn't say interviews are hard. It's just too many. You need to be cool with PHP and have knowledge of UTF support in them, must have basic knowledge of how to optimize PHP for performance, Must have basic idea of HTTP transactions and Cookies. Must have some idea about MVC patterns, I hardly got asked SQL questions. You need be good with JavaScript, need to understand OOP support in javaScript, closures, defining private methods, using inheritence in JS. You need to know basic browser event handling, Browser quiks, Sematic Mark up, HTML DOM, XML DOM, AJAX, optimizing CSS for performance and for other browsers.

if not very well you need to understand these concepts.