"Nick Has an Exocet" (nickallain)
07/08/2019 at 17:06 • Filed to: None
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"Nick Has an Exocet" (nickallain)
07/08/2019 at 17:06 • Filed to: None | 3
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Didn’t get the job that I interviewed for last week. I was the first candidate they spoke to and from experience, that’s rarely the person who gets the job. I’m not really broken up about it and I really do wish them well.
I learned a thing a while back (when interviewing with Amazon back in 2012ish ) :
When interviewing a company in a city that is a plane-ride away, spend a day being a tourist and enjoy the trip. If you don’t get the job, you still have other fond things to remember about it.
Glad I took my own advice to heart and went down a day early. In the case of the Amazon trip back in the day, that turned into an entire week where I mainly couch surfed because weather cancelled flights for 3 days. I ended up with a full week of Seattle. Not bad!
I guess now is as good of time as any to mention that I’m working on a little side project to catalog all the fun automotive experiences out there then let you build a personalized bucket list of museums, tracks, etc. The goal is to keep is ultra-simple - basically an aesthetically pleasing front end on a database. There’s not need to try and be drivetribe :)
BIGBLOCK472 - wide and bizarre
> Nick Has an Exocet
07/08/2019 at 17:43 |
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Sorry about the job but you have a great outlook on things!
Aremmes
> Nick Has an Exocet
07/08/2019 at 17:48 |
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The goal is to keep is ultra-simple - basically an aesthetically pleasing front end on a database.
So basically an HTML table and
Datatables
? :-)
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Nick Has an Exocet
> Aremmes
07/08/2019 at 18:04 |
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Hah, more like a guided filter system. My idea of simple is to overcomplicate things on the back end :)
412GTI
> Nick Has an Exocet
07/08/2019 at 19:32 |
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I like that mindset when it comes to interviewing in another city. Will certainly try to use that in future. On to the next one!
LastFirstMI is my name
> Nick Has an Exocet
07/08/2019 at 21:16 |
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Great ideas! One of my favorite interview trips was a job interview in New Mexico where the manager discovered our mutual interest in off-the-beaten path adventures, and we ended up driving out into the desert to see some ruins. I wish I had a picture of me in my suit and dress shoes walking through the brush!
