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Re: eBay is looking for network heavies...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Satchell)
Wed Jun 10 23:39:48 2015
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Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 20:39:41 -0700
From: Stephen Satchell <list@satchell.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 06/10/2015 07:47 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> Over the past 25 years or so, I can think of a half-dozen offers I've
> turned down because the employer failed the interview. (Which
> doesn't make me a geeenious ... just someone who values low blood
> pressure, and prefers an interesting work environment over $$$)
OK, can't ignore a straight line like that...
When I was living in Chicago, a head-hunter steered me to a consulting
firm that had a hot project. They were looking for young hot
programmers for a top-secret project.
After the phone screen, the company called me in for the face-to-face
"interview". I put the word "interview" in quotes because, for 25
minutes, the chief programmer of the place played a video game he wrote.
That was the extent of the interview!
The company? A game studio (back when game studios were new) who had a
contract to develop games for the to-be-introduced Coleco Adam. Um,
that was a surprise, and not my thing. I ran out of there...
