Comments | livingdeadpan: espn, pronounced "eh-spin"

livingdeadpan

espn, pronounced "eh-spin"

Mar 08, 2008 08:34

I just applied for a job at ESPN, which is owned by Disney, as a programmer on their online fantasy sports site.

Talk about selling out to The Man - in order to do what you like.

pool, self

Comments 9

batteal March 8 2008, 20:52:21 UTC

That's hot. I hope you get it.

metalmensch March 8 2008, 21:37:52 UTC

I was thinking about you the other day. You're looking to do online website stuffs? What kind?

livingdeadpan March 8 2008, 21:55:37 UTC

Well, that depends on how big a chance the employer wants to take. My experience is pretty narrow (perl, MySQL/Oracle), but if someone agreed that I could learn the language/platform they need, I doubt it'd be a problem.

As for kind, it doesn't really matter. My first programming job was grain contracts, of all things.

metalmensch March 8 2008, 22:21:09 UTC

Talk to Sarah (mediavore) about her new job. Tell her I sent you.

Yeah, I definitely understand that doesn't really matter thing. :)

livingdeadpan March 8 2008, 22:39:13 UTC

Done.

Before that first job, I didn't know anything about database design or perl, and barely any HTML. My first three weeks was basically sitting at my desk reading books and dinking around on their platform. Not many Seattle companies are going to do that these days, apparently. Even "Programmer I" jobs list 5 years of x and 3 years of y. -bleh-

waterfaery March 9 2008, 18:14:32 UTC

Not sure if you knew this, but Mr. Waterfaery works there.

Best of luck!

livingdeadpan March 10 2008, 01:03:29 UTC

I didn't know. In that particular department, or just somewhere at ESPN?

waterfaery March 10 2008, 15:26:14 UTC

At W-Dig, which supports all of Disney Online, ESPN, ABC, and their other properties.

He manages the back-end of guest services, so everything that has to do with logging in, registering, payment, security, etc. His department is basically the Big Brother division.

A couple of his best programmers and PMs went over to the ESPN division very recently though, and he works closely w/that division in any case. We'd be up for dinner & chat some time if you want to pick his brain. Best would be to have it here though as we're working on our bedtime routine with the little guy.

livingdeadpan March 13 2008, 17:42:51 UTC

No nibble from them, so I guess not. :-/