I'm starting to get to know all the recruiters at various local agencies by name.
Volt: Candice, Susan, Henry
Excell: Willie, Len, Erin
Comforce: Bruce, Andrew
Chameleon Technologies: Heather
Now if one of these people could ACTUALLY GET ME A JOB, life would be pretty good... Erin is the current recruiter at bat, because I have an interview today at Borg for a year-long SDE/T gig. In less than two hours. Wish me luck, folks.
Volt: Candice, Susan, Henry
Excell: Willie, Len, Erin
Comforce: Bruce, Andrew
Chameleon Technologies: Heather
Now if one of these people could ACTUALLY GET ME A JOB, life would be pretty good... Erin is the current recruiter at bat, because I have an interview today at Borg for a year-long SDE/T gig. In less than two hours. Wish me luck, folks.
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Date: 2003-05-15 12:17 am (UTC)Though damned if I know how I did. I've stopped trying to really figure out how I do on interviews; these past months I've had ones that I thought I did really well on, and on which I seemed to hit it off very well with the interviewers... only to not get any of those jobs.
This time around I got a couple of guys who were either very good at the Microsoft Interview Poker Face, or who were just tired or something from slogging through a day's worth of interviews. (I happened to notice when I got there that the person who must have been right ahead of me in the cattle call was coming out to meet someone who had to be his recruiter--she asked him how he thought he did and such.)
Not much chatting at all in these interviews, mostly just an endless cavalcade of coding and logic questions. I got all the questions that the first guy asked me, but bombed hardcore on one of the logic questions from the second guy. On the other hand--I also got "that's the best answer I've heard all day" in response to something else he asked me, so there might be hope.
Though again... damned if I know, anymore! I'm just trying to keep it cool and hang onto the mindset of "if I get the job, dandy, if not, move on". The aforementioned Erin did tell me that she had another job possibility that she thought I would be a match for if this one falls through... and for that matter, Andrew at Comforce called me this morning before I left for the interview.
Because he'd gotten my resume off of Monster.com (which I'd spent some time updating this weekend, go me!). Go figure--Monster.com actually proved useful!
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Date: 2003-05-15 12:22 am (UTC)I've gotta spruce it up again. I'm feeling minimalist these days and need to give it a cleaner, less graphics-heavy look while trying to maintain some code goodness and leafy pretty.
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Date: 2003-05-14 11:16 pm (UTC)BTW, I like your list, you talked to more people than I did, but we talked to two of the same people at Excell, you should also try to see if Mike has anything for you there, he seemed to have a few good ones a week ago. He got me an interview loop at MS that went OK but then the position got re-org'd away.
You talked to a whole different set of people at Volt. If you send me your resume I could forward it on to Kathy and/or Andrea over there, they also look for SDE/T positions, and they got me my current gig, and a friend of mine that I referred to them, all in the same week. He started today.
I hope the interview today went well, I know you will get something soon, I think the SDE/T market is going through a boom right now and you definitely have the skills to land one of the open positions.
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Date: 2003-05-15 12:25 am (UTC)I've been inundating Volt with applying for stuff online at their web site as appropriate, but what the hell, I'll fire my current resume your way. Can't hurt. :)
Dar's making similar noises at me about not selling myself short as an SDE/T--I tend to not really think of myself in such terms, but after talking to the two guys today about what they're looking for I think I'll be quite comfy with such a position. I've taken some confidence from being able to discuss running automation on my last job.
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