Posted on August 17, 2016 by Chamber — Leave a reply
Greetings happened later.
The study leader who gathered this study started explaining.
Topcode and Coder Jam was, in a sense, a programming competition.
Topcode was similar but had differences. In Topcode, award money was given by companies, when the problems they put on there was solved. 150 dollars to 300 dollars, 500 dollars, etc – There were various prizes, and the person with the most efficient code would take the money. And a person’s on-site rankings would go up as more people selected that person’s code.
The final objective of this study was to participate in those.
At the kind looking study leader’s words, they introduced themselves one by one.
After the greetings, they solved a simple problem as a test. The problem the study leader brought was a queue algorithm.
‘This is quite easy.’
When he lifted his head after quickly solving the problem, most of the people were in thought while their hands were placed on their laptop keyboards.
Looking at other people’s expressions, it seemed that they were having a hard time. SungGyu, who YongHo followed like a god in his university days, also didn’t solve the problem yet.
Swoosh.
‘I should treat them to a meal after this.’
Unlike his university days, he now had enough leisure to treat them. He now had enough ability to stop leeching on Kang SungGyu and his juniors.
“Is there someone who would like to explain at the front?”
While explaning, he gave glances from time to time towards Ji SuMin or Choi HyeJin. YongHo remembered that Jeong JinSup emphasized that he didn’t have a girlfriend when he introduced himself.
Jeong JinSup said to the people who were trying to leave since the study session ended.
It was dinner time.
The 7 headed to a meat restaurant.
The seating was naturally divided into 2.
“Yes. I’m… delighted…to see you…”
YongHo didn’t do it, and SungGyu didn’t either.
It was not only that.
“Whoa, Seonbae, it’s been a really long time. It seems big companies do live up to their name? Your face looks so well.”
“When I listened to the people who moved to Shinseki from here, they all say it’s quite difficult. But when I look at you, it doesn’t seem that difficult as they said.”
“Hey, I do have a hard time, you know?”
At her question of ‘is there a place there?’, the people’s gazes all turned towards YongHo. Even Ji SuMin quietly put down the piece of meat she was going to eat.
At those words, Jeong JinSup interfered.
“Haha, well, there are departments like and not like that.”
Jeong JinSup quietened down while sneaking a look at YongHo. His pride as a programmer was great.
That person had leisure and confidence. YongHo was like that.
“Are they management personnel or developers? They only know how to scold people. All they know is how to say ‘performance is too bad’, ‘why did you code the query like this?’ while they don’t even know the ‘C’ of coding…. Ha! They’re so absurd.”
However, it didn’t end there. He grandly preached a sermon about the attitude a programmer should have, or how he studied, etc.
-Hyung, if you have time, shall we go for a 2nd round?
-Oh, is that so, then there’s no helping it.
-Seonbae, I don’t want to listen to that person anymore, shall we go for a 2nd round by ourselves?
A 2nd round without Kang SungGyu started. At YongHo’s words of ‘you can choose anything’, Choi HyeJin rejoiced and YongHo could listen to the various things that happened in Mirae until now.
The story YongHo heard from Choi HyeJin was sufficient for him to feel that the world change fast.
According to what Choi HyeJin said, Not long after director Kim ManHo was fired, Kim WonHo, who had poor skills anyway, was put into the same situation.
‘Times sure did change.’
The cute and pure outer appearance also had a part. In contrast, Ji SuMin was starting to lose interest in coding.
The most unpredictable one was Kang SungGyu.
He commuted to the company quietly without doing anything big but not too small either. This kind of situation would be unimaginable in his university days when he was recognized by everyone.
When he thought of the events that happened until now, he could only say ‘how did something like this happen?’.
‘I sleep on a bed like this too.’
A more comfortable life was beginning.
The estimated price for the server that the planning team calculated was around 30 million won (≈26,000USD). Considering tens of millions people as customers, they set the minimum image storage as 2 megabytes.
A tera was 1024 × 1024 times bigger than a mega.
If they considered a server to provide the service, they would need a lot more than 20 million (≈17,400USD) so they requested for 30 million.
“It still wasn’t approved?”
“Welp, everything’s not going as expected……”
“Why don’t we use an outside CDN(Contents Delivery Network) service?”
“If we use an outside service when we have an IT subsidiary… Bad rumors will spread inside the company. We need to use inside resources as much as possible.”
“Then I will look for a place where I can buy it at a cheaper price.”
“…Of course, team leader has that ability but I’m not sure if the company would allow that.”
“Yes. Please look into lower prices.”
Three foreigners were lost and were looking around in Incheon International Airport. Their exceptional figures attracted the surrounding people’s gazes.
“Where are you planning to go?”
“Did you contact him beforehand?”
Dave said with an exaggerated expression. Jessie creased her face as she thought that such a figure was so disappointing and asked blankly.
“No, I even lost the contact info.”
In the end, Jessie shouted in the middle of the airport. James on the side, was smiling at the new environment known as Korea.
“How is it? Isn’t it heart-pounding?”
“Well then, shall we go?”
“We can go to Shinseki. Let’s go!”
Dave confidently walked forward. Jessie followed Dave as if she had given up.
In the end, Jeong DanBi went to the finance team herself. Even though she decreased the request by 10%, the funding wasn’t approved.
“Why are you saying you can’t approve it?”
“What?”
The neatly parted hair showed the personality of this finance team leader. Even though Jeong DanBi, the direct descent of the chairman, was speaking, this man didn’t even twitch his eyebrows.
“If it’s around 50% of what it is now, then it’s possible.”
“What a coincidence. I hate jokes too. Or you can wait until next year for the funding.”
“Why, did president Jeong JinHoon tell you to do this?”
The finance team leader broke his words.
Jeong DanBi couldn’t control her emotions and she let it all out. The people’s gazes inside the room all turned towards Jeong DanBi.
Jeong DanBi then realized her mistake. She was in the middle of attention. She judged that any more conversation was meaningless. Then she left the office.
Chaos would probably ensue if she talked to Son SeokHo about it. The trust in a team leader who couldn’t even get 30 million won funds would also plummet in the hearts of the team members.
Jeong DanBi’s agony became deeper.