The mistake of a tech company intern: Teasing the CEO wife

Phoenix Science and technology news Beijing time November 1, according to BusinessInsider web site reported, whether domestic or foreign, it seems that temporary interns in the company always committed a large and small error, Quora forum launched a "technology company interns out of the Big Trouble" survey. Facebook, Microsoft, AIG intern shot. Now let's take a look. 1. Facebook intern: Teasing the CEO's wife Figure 1 when I was still interning at Facebook, I was tested for Facebook issues before the formal interview. I decided to answer a few questions and look at the process. One of the girls raised the second (or third) question: "How do You solve the two-time equation?" "I was a big fan of the satirical comics" XKCD ", and my first reaction was:" Have you tried the logarithm? " (Note: The lines in "XKCD"), and I did answer that. In this situation, the slight ridicule is also "appropriate", I did not feel that there is much problem. Later, I learned that the girl who asked the question was precious Priscilla (Priscilla Chan), the girlfriend of Mark Mark Zuckerberg (now wife). 2, "I burned the office." "Figure 2 in high school, my first job was programming." I hurt the whole office because of faulty wiring. Heavy losses-shifting more than 100 people, burning a large number of documents, records, artwork and CEO memorabilia. The CEO never blames me, but I think he knows I screwed up. 3, the accident let Ukraine bank infrastructure downtime 30 minutes Figure 3 at that time, I was in the second year of college, to a local network service provider as a primary system administrator. Our wireless network is 60 km in diameter, covering the entire city and many remote areas. All major commercial banks and most large enterprises use this network. (100 branches of banks, some large factories, radio stations, etc.) at the time, I wanted to turn off my local server and switched to a Terminal command window connecting to the machine, typing the "poweroff" command. I hit the back, I just reacted, my command sent the wrong server, I turned off the whole city's core routers. Later, we took a taxi to the core base station to open the routing power. The entire city's banking facilities have been down for more than 30 minutes. 4, the Washington Post website intern: I closed the site for 5 hours Figure 4 I need to send a report anonymously. When I was an intern on the Washington Post website, I paralyzed the company's website for 2 hours, and it took me 5 hours to redistribute it. At the time, I was modifying a very important XML file and forgot to write a semicolon in XML. Luckily, my boss was very generous and did not hold me accountable. I was finally officially hired. 5, Fat finger: Novice One key deleted 8000 lines of code Figure 5 I was using the MySQL command line to operate the Web site application database. I loseEntered the DELETE from tablename WHERE id-1234. , and pressed the ENTER key. I discovered that should enter "id=1234", not What "id-1234". So, I deleted all the data rows with ID number less than 1234. MySQL reply "Deleted 8000 rows of data", let me immediately petrified. 6. NetApp Internship Product Manager threatens company customers: cut off your finger Figure 6 The internship manager needs to give a very important presentation to a client company's chief Security Officer (CSO). The CSO asked to know why the show did not include a biological safety scanner, which, of course, was beyond the scope of the reservation. The intern responded, "You want a biometric scanner?" That's great. I now have the urge to chop off your fingers and, like in a movie, take the swipe. 7, Facebook intern: with "www" When the user name consequences are very serious figure 7 when the first internship, I use the "www" when the user name. As a result, all the engineers ' sandbox (sandbox) was redirected to me, so I couldn't write a single line of code. 8, CPA Interns: The most should not "reply to all (Reply all)" When the time to do so figure 8CPA Company will recruit 4 to 5 summer interns, as required to complete a variety of work. When they have nothing to do, they need to send a "time to work" email to the entire department, telling the other people in the department that they can help. Once an intern had just sent a message, his friend sent it to everyone accidentally, suck my d---(harmony) all 60 people, including interns, managers, department heads and so on, all received this wonderful mail. The manager slowly paced out of the office as everyone was stunned. Now, "Reply All" became the prerequisite content of trainee training. 9, unplug the company's main server power plug in the mobile phone charger Figure 9 Plot is very simple, the consequences are easy to imagine: "Unplug the company's main server power, plug in the mobile phone charger." "10, so Facebook was shot again in Figure 10 I let the Facebook message (messager) down 9 minutes 11, Big Mouth persuaded CEO retirement Figure 11 during the internship, I asked the CEO at a staff meeting: whether he did his best to make the company develop along the plan and vision. He asked who I was, thought for a few minutes in front of 200 employees, walked out of the boardroom, and came back a few minutes later, announcing his retirement. Add a few points: this is a small company with only 500 people. As far as I know, the CEO didn't intend to retire. There are rumours that the CEO could have been fired for failing to operate. The CEO had some mild depression, and he mentioned in his speech that he needed someone to tell him what he was doing badly. And I asked a question that was the last one to ask. 12, send a message to the whole company: your computer shouldThe half speed of the day Figure 12 I was 21 years old, working in a multinational IT consulting firm, using IBM terminals and customer communications, Target is one of our customers. The "Send Message" key is similar to today's, but if you do not provide a target number, the message is sent to all users. One Friday, I sent a message "to commemorate the birth of Blesse Pasca (Nkufo Pascal), your computer should run at half speed for a day." "I thought I sent it to my colleagues, but I actually sent it to everyone--retail, target, management. Target's technicians once thought it was a virus attack, started tracking the source, and finally found me. 13, Microsoft Intern: "Steal" Microsoft Exchange New user interface Figure 13 my colleague went to lunch, an intern came to him, knocked a button on his computer, thought the computer was locked and nothing was wrong. As a result, the computer was unlocked, and he sent Microsoft's internal beta Outlook to an external FTP server. My colleague was fired. 14. Amazon Intern: Mistakenly telling the PR team about the real idea Figure 14 This is about deleting the "1984" (Note: George Orwell) copy that the Kindle user has purchased. I accidentally sent them complaints about the PR team. Then I got a warning call from the VP of Media Relations. 15. Do not do before leaving Friday night: "I paralyzed aig Wall Street Company's three-tier network, but also three days." "Figure 15 before I left in the evening of Friday, I installed the server provided by ATT to my desk." I didn't know it was a DHCP server. A company that has two DHCP servers can cause IP leases to become cluttered. In the morning of Tuesday, I returned to the company and found that the CIO and several other executives were standing at my desk, and I knew I was miserable. (Compiling/twilight into Snow)