A change of Cadence

[unixronin]

So, yesterday I reported on my phone screen with Cadence, leading to an onsite interview today.  Well, today's onsite went at least as well.  I ended up being there for about an hour and three quarters, pretty much the last 45 minutes of which was swapping history and general geek discussion.  I can get along with these people just fine; we share a lot of the same attitudes, viewpoints and opinions.  Opening words of the interview, about as accurately as I can remember:

"First of all, what's your favorite shell, your favorite distribution, and your favorite scripting language?"

"Favorite shell would be bash, favorite distribution is Slackware, though I'm thinking..."

"OK, I've heard enough, he'll work out just fine."  (Or words to that effect.  I didn't even get to finish saying I was considering a switch to Gentoo, or to answer the third question, which we never did come back to.)

So anyway, when I left today, it was with the parting words that I would be hearing from the hiring manager, probably on Thursday.  And an hour after I got home, my phone rang ... it was the recruiter I've been working with, who told me that said hiring manager had already called her back and wanted to set up another onsite tomorrow.  So I'll be going to talk to him at 16:00 tomorrow.

The way this is going, I could have a new job by Friday.  I don't think I've ever had an interview process move this fast, and the last time I had an interview that went this well was when I got hired at Cygnus Solutions (after at least a year of the Bitminers trying to talk me into applying).

Comments

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

Yay!

-Ogre

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

I've had it move faster once. My very first job at Georgia Tech as a User Assistant. I walked in and she basically handed me the job on a silver platter. But that's been a long time. Long time.

Good job,
good job,
good job,
NO FISH!

[otherbill.livejournal.com]

I'll be keeping my fingers crossed. I've been familiar with Cadence tools for over 15 years now; they seem to be a good company.

[dirtynumbangel.livejournal.com]

About time!

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

This sounds very promising! Good Job Vibes continuing...

[yndy.livejournal.com]

a) much congratulations!
b) hope you don't mind that I'm adding you to my FL - articulate, interesting folk like yourself are hard to find - but I do tend to find them, and then add them, and then think "ooh, maybe I should let him/her know that I added him/her?" and then write long, rambling, run-on sentences that a jr. high English teacher would have a coronary over not unlike this one...

;)

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I'm honored. :)

(Also occasionally terse .....)

[yndy.livejournal.com]

Brevity is the soul of wit! (or some such other mangled misquotation!)

But glad to have made your acquaintance!

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

So it is said. It is also said that the pun is both the highest, and the lowest, form of wit. So I suppose, combining the two, that would make a brief pun the sole of wit .....



[oops. take 2]

[yndy.livejournal.com]

Some mischief is afoot here - I didn't see a thing about punning in your profile!! :)

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Well, if I said that, people would think I was a heel, and then they'd find some ankle to try and make me toe the line.

[yndy.livejournal.com]

Well I'd still look up to you... we all have different knee-ds... and if you must pun, you must pun!

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

What can I say? I haddock do it, just for the halibut. :)


(and my knee-ds, or knees at any rate, will never be the same again ....)