...and ten years of Java.
Mar. 4th, 2002 09:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eyelessgameTeched at Cirrus. More on that in a minute. For now, since Cirrus went reasonably well, after thinking on the drive home about iTopia I realized the only reason I was trying to string them along was for ego; I wanted the idea of having four companies all offering to me. Since I had already discounted them in my mind, I figured I'd call them and decline so they wouldn't have to talk to me tomorrow.
So I call. I give my spiel, about how I know their time is valuable and after thinking it over and after attending another interview I felt there were other places that would make a better fit for me, and rather than take more of their time I'd thank them for their consideration yada yada.
The HR person I'm on the phone with responds. "Oh, that's all right. (Manager guy) reconsidered you over the weekend anyway, and decided he would prefer someone with more telephony experience."
I'm basically stunned speechless. First off, sure they'd want someone who interviewed better, but I have eight years of telephony experience; how much did they think they were going to get? Second... oh my word that's rude. If the interviewee turns you down, you say thank you and goodbye and best wishes, you don't tell him "that's all right, we didn't want you anyway." I'm sure she didn't mean to be rude, it was the tone of "see, this is working out great for both of us" -- but still. I was way too amused -- and way too glad I'd turned them down first -- to be offended.
iTopia is now off my radar. Good riddance.
So Cirrus will probably make me an offer unless they think I'm overqualified. The only problem is, the position is more tech support than software programming, and after realizing that I got rusty in four months of QA at Malibu, I'd have to be pretty hard pressed to take another non-programming job. (It's code support, since they sell their source to other companies who need to port it and add to it, and you wind up helping them write their code, but it's not writing code itself.) They hope to make the position involve more software writing over time, as they better document the code they're selling.
They're also clearly dealing with engineer ego issues, office politics, and craniorectal inversions in their marketing-engineering relationships. But the people are good, and smart, and friendly.
I think I rank them below BOM.com in desirability. The question now is whether Nvidia in fact offers me a job, and whether it promises to make use of my skill (or whether it's just a glorified build engineer).
Tomorrow may tell a whole lot more. I'd like to hear from Cesar and Alfonso though...
So I call. I give my spiel, about how I know their time is valuable and after thinking it over and after attending another interview I felt there were other places that would make a better fit for me, and rather than take more of their time I'd thank them for their consideration yada yada.
The HR person I'm on the phone with responds. "Oh, that's all right. (Manager guy) reconsidered you over the weekend anyway, and decided he would prefer someone with more telephony experience."
I'm basically stunned speechless. First off, sure they'd want someone who interviewed better, but I have eight years of telephony experience; how much did they think they were going to get? Second... oh my word that's rude. If the interviewee turns you down, you say thank you and goodbye and best wishes, you don't tell him "that's all right, we didn't want you anyway." I'm sure she didn't mean to be rude, it was the tone of "see, this is working out great for both of us" -- but still. I was way too amused -- and way too glad I'd turned them down first -- to be offended.
iTopia is now off my radar. Good riddance.
So Cirrus will probably make me an offer unless they think I'm overqualified. The only problem is, the position is more tech support than software programming, and after realizing that I got rusty in four months of QA at Malibu, I'd have to be pretty hard pressed to take another non-programming job. (It's code support, since they sell their source to other companies who need to port it and add to it, and you wind up helping them write their code, but it's not writing code itself.) They hope to make the position involve more software writing over time, as they better document the code they're selling.
They're also clearly dealing with engineer ego issues, office politics, and craniorectal inversions in their marketing-engineering relationships. But the people are good, and smart, and friendly.
I think I rank them below BOM.com in desirability. The question now is whether Nvidia in fact offers me a job, and whether it promises to make use of my skill (or whether it's just a glorified build engineer).
Tomorrow may tell a whole lot more. I'd like to hear from Cesar and Alfonso though...
