It's not simple to look for a job with narrow domain constraints (my main interests are a pretty small subset of the total programming work) but wide geographic flexibility (I'd enjoy most places on either coast plus much of the interior west). Keyword searches on major job sites can find some good matches, but some of my interests are broad ( Read more... )

I've felt down or blue a lot in the past few days. At first, it was probably from eating milk chocolate fun size candy bars, but there was also a fair bit of self--doubt and existential moroseness. Thinking it through, I figured I'd internalized my perceived outside chance at getting hired by Google. Consciously, I knew my good answers were more ( Read more... )

I spent over five hours interviewing at Google's Boulder office yesterday. My visit came about a month after I submitted my résumé, via a connection who referred me, to Google's famously challenging hiring process. Before I arrived at Google's office, I'd had my résumé selected from a large pool (which is probably full of bad programmers), had a ( Read more... )

I've spent much of today skimming really boring job postings. There's a certain uniformity in job board language that makes reading about exciting work really droll. This means (unless you're picky about domain like I am), it's hard for any job posting to stick out. So I was amused to find this job posting written in Ruby on the Joel on Software ( Read more... )

My summer plans came true, but I've entirely failed to blog about them. The next post is a short summary, but this one's about my new activity: finding employment.

My next adventure is finding a job. I've just updated my résumé. I still like my unorthodox "this is the real me" style, but I've kept my normally-formatted résumé for employers that ( Read more... )