Thursday, 29 Jun 2017, 7:30pm. Denver Airport.I'm en route to home this evening. I left the Washington, DC area on a 4:10pm (Eastern) departure and am connecting in Denver for a flight to San Jose that arrives at 9:45 (Pacific ( Read more... )

Tuesday, 27 Jun 2017, 8am. San Jose airport.This morning I'm headed off to Virginia for final-round interviews with a small software company. A few key people who'd like to meet me face-to-face are at the Richmond office. If I get the job, I'd be working out of an office in San Jose ( Read more... )

Friday I spent the day in San Francisco with job interviews.

I left home at 7:45am to walk to the train station. It was crowded when I arrived. I estimate there were more than 100 people waiting along with me.

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Though I am closing in on job offers with three companies as I mentioned yesterday I am still pursuing new leads. I'm researching new companies, responding to invitations from recruiters, and taking first-round interviews.

This may seem an odd thing to do as I am, after all, nearing as many as 3 reasonable offers in the next week to 10 days. ( Read more... )

I'm entering the final stages of interviewing with three companies now.

• Company A is a monitoring/analytics company.
• Company B is a software automation tools company.
• Company C is a cloud data platform.

I expect that any or all of them will make me an offer within the next week ( Read more... )

Here's another Stupid Interview Trick I've seen: disrespect the interviewer. This one happened to me several times at a job years ago when we were interviewing candidates for the position of regional sales team director. There was one candidate in particular who copped bored look and kept asking, "Anything else? ...Anything else?" Well, yes, I did ( Read more... )

Since finding out last Friday that a job opportunity I was pursuing fizzled I've been asking myself, "Is this a good thing or a bad thing?" Or, more accurately, I've been lamenting that it's a bad thing and trying to reassure myself that it's not all bad.

In the "Reasons to be sad" column are:

1. The position seemed like it could be a real ( Read more... )

After my phone interview Thursday with "The Braggart" I heard from the recruiter on Friday: the company decided not to move foward with my candidacy ( Read more... )

As I'm interviewing for jobs once again it's time to bring back a tag from the past: Stupid Interview Tricks.

This past Thursday I had a phone interview with another of the principals at a company I've been talking to for a few weeks now. It's the company that I expressed concerns about the commute over. I'm warming to the idea of making the ( Read more... )

As many of you know, I am in the process of looking for another job. I am in the final stage of the interviewing process with two companies right now. I anticipate written offers very soon ( Read more... )