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).