SMU Information Systems graduate Muhammad Mohsin was twice unsuccessful in his application for a job with Google at Silicon Valley, USA. Once was when he was still at SMU and later when he graduated in 2009. He went on to set up his own company developing software for clients and operating from his home. Nonetheless, last September, three years after graduation, he felt like he was in a dream when Google’s head office at Mountain View, California wrote him an email to ask if he would like to apply for a job as an engineer in their US office. The job would involve developing mobile and iPad applications for Apple. He would, however, have to be interviewed and tested to prove that he can do the job. After a videoconference interview at his home, and six different interviews and tests by six software engineers held in one day at Google’s head office, Muhammad passed all the tests and was offered the job.bb