Two interviews today, and I'm wiped out.

[elfs]

I had two job interviews today. The first was with an advertising agency that is putting together a very rapid development site for one of their clients, and needs someone who can write Django fast enough to wrangle together all of the details of of a couple of inbound feeds into displayable objects. It's all back-end stuff, no GIMP-Fu needed sad to say, but it's definitely among the high-water of the kinds of development I do well and would like to be doing. And they seemed to like me.

The other interview-- not so much. Although I read the job description and it seemed to say "Web Developer Wanted," and they read my resume which screames web developer and thought I was a good fit for the role, what they really wanted was a marketer and marketing manager who specialized in search engine optimization and cross-site promotion, rather than a Rails developer.

Funny story: I've already worked for this guy. In 1993. I was temping at the time, and he needed a bunch of data entry people for an emergency calculation over a fraud case they were tracking. Very strange.

I got home and there was a box on the doorstep! I took it inside and eagerly anticipated assembling my new fan into my old laptop-- only to see, after it was open, that this was the replacement paring knife from OXO for the one we'd broken a few weeks ago. Ah, well.

And now I am completely exhausted. I'm going to take a nap.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_candide_/]

Software developers are typically "INTJ" on the Meyers-Briggs. Or, at least, I think we're INTJ.

We're definitely on the "I" side of the E-I axis. So we need to go inward to recharge.

I always give myself something introspectively-fun to do after doing any interview, or even contacting a recruiter I don't know well yet. Sounds like you need to do the same. ^_^

[icebluenothing.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Well, you could *try* using the paring knife instead of the fan ....

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

He could use the paring knife to carve a new fan out of a rutabaga!

Is this Wise?

[(Anonymous)]

YMMV, however I would question if it's wise to be posting your opinions of your interviews so openly -- as well as who else you are interviewing with at the same time. The people who interview you and make hiring decisions are completely capable of reading this blog, and you're already aware firsthand of just how completely your life can be researched by a potential employer.

I don't see how anything you say here could possibly give a potential employer a single additional reasonsto hire you -- but everything can become a reason to pass over you in favor of another candidate.

And the argument that I wouldn't want to work for a company that was like that anyway is pretty lame when juxtaposed against your desire for a job.

Just my $/50.

--DB_Story