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The thing on Saturday
Sep. 26th, 2006 05:19 pmWell, it was a long day..Up at 7:30, am.
Get everything I want together, put resumes, extra battery and such in backpack, and I leave around 9:30...get to Dell at 11:15 or so. Met a Dell tech on the bus, and chatted with him about Dell, he said it was a great place to work. So first session was at 11:30...we go into this room that has a bunch of PCs, including this one that looks like a Bang & Olafson console stereo and play some first person shooter...I kick ass! Spend about half the time as the lead fragger. :-)
Then they corral us upstairs for a powerpoint talk where they detail what was happening...including the fact that you could walk away with a provisional offer that day. After that, we go and take a quick written test...aced the hardware part, don't know about how well I did on the Windows part. After they take about 15 minutes to score it, then off I go to the waiting room, basically the cafeteria, where I wait...and wait...and wait...I finished most of a novel, which means I was probably there for the better part of an hour!
I finally get inverviewed by this manager. He askes a bunch of questions...like where is the POST stored...I tell him in the BIOS...and he asks where is the BIOS, I tell him in the CMOS chip...he then asks where the CMOS chip is...of course, it's on the motherboard! I think that was the answer he originally wanted. Anyways, there was a bunch of technical and sociological questions ( eg. how to you tell your boss he is wrong, and that you know more than he does). I am pretty sure that I did OK, as there was a bunch of branchings in the stream of questions. I didn't get out of there until towards 4 pm.
I hope I did OK, but the fact that I didn't walk away with a provisional offer doesn't leave me feeling hopefull.
At very worst, I did find a bug in my resume in the dozen or so times the night before I revamped it. So it wasn't all a waste.
ttyl
Get everything I want together, put resumes, extra battery and such in backpack, and I leave around 9:30...get to Dell at 11:15 or so. Met a Dell tech on the bus, and chatted with him about Dell, he said it was a great place to work. So first session was at 11:30...we go into this room that has a bunch of PCs, including this one that looks like a Bang & Olafson console stereo and play some first person shooter...I kick ass! Spend about half the time as the lead fragger. :-)
Then they corral us upstairs for a powerpoint talk where they detail what was happening...including the fact that you could walk away with a provisional offer that day. After that, we go and take a quick written test...aced the hardware part, don't know about how well I did on the Windows part. After they take about 15 minutes to score it, then off I go to the waiting room, basically the cafeteria, where I wait...and wait...and wait...I finished most of a novel, which means I was probably there for the better part of an hour!
I finally get inverviewed by this manager. He askes a bunch of questions...like where is the POST stored...I tell him in the BIOS...and he asks where is the BIOS, I tell him in the CMOS chip...he then asks where the CMOS chip is...of course, it's on the motherboard! I think that was the answer he originally wanted. Anyways, there was a bunch of technical and sociological questions ( eg. how to you tell your boss he is wrong, and that you know more than he does). I am pretty sure that I did OK, as there was a bunch of branchings in the stream of questions. I didn't get out of there until towards 4 pm.
I hope I did OK, but the fact that I didn't walk away with a provisional offer doesn't leave me feeling hopefull.
At very worst, I did find a bug in my resume in the dozen or so times the night before I revamped it. So it wasn't all a waste.
ttyl
