I'm interviewing for a new job today. Five different people, won't be through until 1:30 p.m. I'm wearing a nice new suit I bought last week, but still feeling like a piece of garbage that got a quick hosing off before the tag sale.
Wish me luck.
Five different people to interview one person?
Sounds like a government job.
Or union... :-D
Anyway, good luck, Dio.
Good luck, Dio.
Demand a $15 million signing bonus! :deion
Thanks guys. Interviews start @ 9. I'm nervous. :/
Reply to every question with "Up yours."
They will put you on the board.
"You see, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy. It's that I just don't care."
That seemed to work pretty well.
Does sound like a government job. That's the kinda tag team action that got pulled on me for my job. By the fifth guy, you usually have good answers for everything though. Good luck!
good luck Dio. :yay
Good luck to you Dio!!
Good luck DIOblo :yay
Good luck, Dio.
Four down, one to go. Lunch break now. Going alright so far. Thanks for the moral support, folks. I'm feeling much better now that I've been through a few rounds.
Quote from: Diomedes on April 18, 2005, 12:02:25 PM
Four down, one to go. Lunch break now. Going alright so far. Thanks for the moral support, folks. I'm feeling much better now that I've been through a few rounds.
Logging on to CF during the lunch break of your marathon job interview... wow.
But you know, good luck.
I'm sure you'll feel even better after DRINKING a few rounds later. ;)
Good luck... hopefully they don't review their firewall logs to see what you've been up to today... :-D
Quote from: rjs246 on April 18, 2005, 12:14:42 PM
Logging on to CF during the lunch break of your marathon job interview... wow.
A marathon interview, and yet they don't take him out to lunch? Cheap bastiches.
Alright, well that's done. Only it's not. I interviewed with five people. One of them (from HR) wants another interview tomorrow, and it is already scheduled. I'll also have to sit with a final (sixth) interviewer sometime tomorrow.
My initial take is that it went well. As many of you can imagine..Dio can talk. I handled all the questions well, if perhaps a tad to honest I suppose, and I don't think any of the people who talked to me were bored.
They say that once I've had the last interview, it will take a week to two weeks to return with news.
I'll let y'all know. Thanks again for the support. I was pretty nervous this morning.
Quote from: Diomedes on April 18, 2005, 02:23:56 PM
Alright, well that's done. Only it's not. I interviewed with five people. One of them (from HR) wants another interview tomorrow, and it is already scheduled. I'll also have to sit with a final (sixth) interviewer sometime tomorrow.
Good deal. :yay You could've gotten the 'ol "Thanks, but no thanks" spiel.
Quote from: Diomedes on April 18, 2005, 02:23:56 PM
Alright, well that's done. Only it's not. I interviewed with five people. One of them (from HR) wants another interview tomorrow, and it is already scheduled. I'll also have to sit with a final (sixth) interviewer sometime tomorrow.
My initial take is that it went well. As many of you can imagine..Dio can talk. I handled all the questions well, if perhaps a tad to honest I suppose, and I don't think any of the people who talked to me were bored.
They say that once I've had the last interview, it will take a week to two weeks to return with news.
I'll let y'all know. Thanks again for the support. I was pretty nervous this morning.
Sounds like it went well. Hope tomorrow goes well for you too.
Good luck, man.....
I went for an interview in Boston a few years back. They flew me up for the day. Had to give a talk, and then (supposedly) interviews with the staff. I get there, and no one's in the suite. A secretary finally shows up and lets me in. We set up the PowerPoint projector, and I sit in a conference room, alone, for an hour, until the CEO shows up, alone, and says might as well start. So I give my talk, and when I'm done, he says, well, thanks for coming, got up went in his office and closed and locked his door.
Flew home an hour later. Glad your interview went better than that.
Quote from: MadMarchHare on April 18, 2005, 04:00:08 PM
I went for an interview in Boston a few years back. They flew me up for the day. Had to give a talk, and then (supposedly) interviews with the staff. I get there, and no one's in the suite. A secretary finally shows up and lets me in. We set up the PowerPoint projector, and I sit in a conference room, alone, for an hour, until the CEO shows up, alone, and says might as well start. So I give my talk, and when I'm done, he says, well, thanks for coming, got up went in his office and closed and locked his door.
:-D
Quote from: MadMarchHare on April 18, 2005, 04:00:08 PM
I went for an interview in Boston a few years back. They flew me up for the day. Had to give a talk, and then (supposedly) interviews with the staff. I get there, and no one's in the suite. A secretary finally shows up and lets me in. We set up the PowerPoint projector, and I sit in a conference room, alone, for an hour, until the CEO shows up, alone, and says might as well start. So I give my talk, and when I'm done, he says, well, thanks for coming, got up went in his office and closed and locked his door.
Flew home an hour later. Glad your interview went better than that.
So did you get the job?
No, but I did suggest to his secretary that he might want to do a phone interview before buying a $1000 plane ticket for someone he obviously didn't want. ::)
For those who care:
After seven interviews with six people and then three weeks of waiting through various bullshtein delays, the verdict is in: HR will be contacting me to make an offer. I'll post again when the deal is done.
Word. Congrats.
Cool. Hope it turns out to be a better gig.
Damn what a process. Id be pulling my hair out. Good luck Dio :yay
So when do you get to unseal your classified orders? I figured with all these people interviewing you, the job has to be in the NSA or something like that... ;)
Quote from: Diomedes on May 11, 2005, 02:18:13 PM
For those who care:
HR will be contacting me to make an offer. I'll post again when the deal is done.
We'll make a capitalist out of you yet! ;)
Seriously...congrats.
I posted too soon. The hiring manager who originally told me that an offer would be made just called. Some big wigs above him have put a hold on the position until at least May 24th while they sort out a sudden re-org. I think the job I'm applying for will survive the cuts (reality verbiage for their euphemistic "re-org",) so I'm not worried..but I do have to wait more now. For those of you who don't know, I'm in the Wine and Spirits industry. As capitalist as you can get if you knew the margins we make. Anyway, this kind of piss poor management is par for the course. I expected it would take several weeks for them to decide to whom they would make an offer. This is a bit longer than should happen even by the warped standards of this company, but I can deal. I was laid off at the end of December and by early Feb. I had consulting work paying me bank. In fact, I was collecting full salary severence from the old company and double that in pay on the consulting gig for four months. Now I've only got the consulting. Boo hoo for Dio. :-D
The company can take their time as far as I'm concerned, because my current gig runs through middle of June, and I'm saving. I will use the delay as a bit of leverage however. Given how unstable the company is, I expect to be hired fully vested in the retirement savings plan. If they object, I'll remind them that the hiring manager had told me an offer would be made only to be surprised himself by news of a re-org. If you reorg that rapidly, then no job is secure, and they'll have to pay for that. I'm not taking a deal which offers vesting three years down the road if it's more likely than not that I'll be laid off before then...
Anyway, that's the skinny.
Hopefully that delay is not a bullshtein excuse for them to interview others. Good luck man.
I know the delay is legit. That doesn't mean however that the selection process won't be re-opened by HR fiat so as to allow another batch of internal folks who are "impacted" by the "re-org" to be considered. So yeah, I hope that too.
So here's the end of this story: As I thought, the offer was legit, but it took the company forever to make it. HR wouldn't let them make the offer until they decided on all the other jobs they were "re-orging." Fools. My consulting gig was solid though, so I bided my time while they did all their stupid corporate crap. Nor was I idle on the job search front. I continued to "network" as these dirtballs call it. 4 1/2 months after the interviews, they gave me an offer. It was crap. I told them I wouldn't work for that. They came back with a second offer that was decent enough to work for, but still underwhelming. Luckily by this point, I had another option pending. To make a long story short, over the ensuing two weeks I extracted the best offer out of each company, and made my decision. The original company lost out. Had they made an offer 30, or 60, or even 90 days after the interviews, I would have signed. But they just couldn't get out of their own way to make the offer and they got beat out in the end by a direct competitor.
I'm pleased with the new job, glad to have stable work. I'm implementing SAP again. Yay. :sly All the same, it's good experience--this time on the supply chain side, rather than procurement--and I managed a nice increase in pay over the salary I had when I was laid off at the end of '04.
So there you have it. Dio the corporate whore. Sucking Satan's dick is my business, and business is good!
Congrats Dio. Way to not let those SONSABITCHES push you around.
Quote from: Diomedes on October 08, 2005, 03:56:39 PM
So there you have it. Dio the corporate whore. Sucking Satan's meatcicle is my business, and business is good!
Sell out ;)
Congrats. :yay
My hero succumbs and becomes a corporate stooge.
That does it. I'm ending it all...
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This story took 6 months to come to a very boring and uneventful end. Boooooooo!
Congrats on the job though.
Stick it to the man Dio!!
SAP? You tool of Satan!
good show chap, good show :yay
Next thing you know, Dio will be voting Libertarian. ;)
Corporate sucks...but not being able to support yourself/family sucks worse. So, congrats.