The interview

[davidn]

The interview for the java development position was today, and I think it went quite well. The interviewers seemed reasonably pleased with the presentation on the SSSSS that I gave, along with being far more interested than I had expected in the other areas that I had mentioned on my site. (In fact, one of the coders had an old song of mine on his desktop and had been playing Treasure Tower that morning.) Incidentally - hello to you all if you're reading this.

There was a bit in the middle where I sort of froze up when asked about the methods that I'd learned in Software Engineering, because I could remember hardly any of them, so I'll have to go back and look them up. Otherwise I'm fairly confident. After all, the woman I had been exchanging emails with also went to St Andrews, and that's got to count for something.

I was vastly pleased this evening to discover that I am fully one inch taller than Kai Hansen. Therefore, short people are fantastic.

Comments

[plette.livejournal.com]

I hope you get it - when do you hear back?

[davidn]

It'll be some time in the middle of next week.

[quadralien.livejournal.com]

Why did you have to call it the SSSSS? I've now got this image stuck in my head of you demonstrating the abilities of Scratch and Grounder to the company.

[davidn]

It took me ages to get that acronym to work. After a summer of not looking at it, I think my abilities in Java are roughly equivalent to theirs.

I didn't actually know that you read LJ any more. How was the Burn?

[mercuryanna.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a snaked named it!

Snakes in the programming!

DAVID DID YOU CONSIDER WRITING IT IN PYTHON????

[davidn]

I could have done! Although one of the main Solitaire suites that I was trying to upstage was written in Python, it didn't have quite such a creative name.