The Job Search Continues

[elfs]

Well, today was unproductive job-wise. I found one opening through a recruiter I'd already spoken with, so it was a different position and I need to get a job number from my contact at this recruiter. Otherwise, pretty bleak.

I did do a technical interview, and the engineer and I talked around all the development issues I did. I kinda flubbed the SQL "Inner joins and Outer joins" technical, but I confessed to using the ORM and taking the default recommendations. I was not aware-- and this was bad-- that ISAM isn't fully ACID, but then most modern installs don't activate the ISAM component anyway. But all of the development layer questions, especially about test driven development and acceptance testing and all that, I knew my stuff, so it was all good that way.

I find that when I'm using the earpiece I tend to pace all around the house, up and down the hallway between the living room and the bedrooms, using motion to activate portions of my brain.

Anyway, we'll see how things go. According to the guy I talked to, a lot of people use the Renton P&R and bus it up to Bellevue. It's faster than driving.

Comments

Possible job info

[latheos.livejournal.com]

Elf, I don't know if this is exactly your line, but a friend (gwywnnydd) posted that her company has an opening.

My company is looking for a (contractor) build engineer. Know anyone?

Title : Software Build Engineer

• Work With QA and Development to define a streamlined build process for our various source code branches
• Design and implement a centralized automated release process for web code deployments to our QA and Production environments.
• Strong knowledge of VSTFS and MSBuild required.
• Strong knowledge of Source code branching and Merging concepts required
• Strong knowledge of ASP.NET, ASP, C#, Javascript
• Knowledge of SQL Server 2005, SQL and relational database concepts a plus

If you need to get in touch with her, just let me know - call if'n you like. My number's top-posted in my journal. :)

Re: Possible job info

[elfs.livejournal.com]

You're the second person to forward this too me, and I appreciate it, but it's all Microsoft. I no more know how to deal with Microsoft products than I do how to perform an appendectomy, I'm afraid.

Re: Possible job info

[codeamazon.livejournal.com]

My first couple of years were in a Java (LAMP) shop. I got hired on to do C# / .NET work and spent a year in that line. The transition wasn't nearly as bad as I expected, though there were *other* issues with that company.

It's my belief you could do it. In your shoes, I'd be *honest* and expect an experience cut if I were jumping across platforms.

Also, I'd talk to the OP about the kinds of jobs they're hiring for. It's my unofficial impression they may not know exactly what they want to move towards, but I *think* UI experience may be more important than they are making clear.

I also may be full of crap. I'm reading between the lines in someone else' script.

[lucky-otter.livejournal.com]

At least you know what ACID means. That's a step above many other developers working on DB-based apps I've worked with.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

I am fully buzzword-compliant!

[ziggadon.livejournal.com]

I've got to admit I'm a real pacer on the phone. In a recent phone interview I was unable to pace, and found myself with serious difficulties when answering simple technical questions...