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Nov. 7th, 2009
09:08 am - On the job market again
Well, Current Employer has finally gone well and truly crazy, and it's time for me to restart the old job hunt.
( Crazy like a crazy person )
That means that if you know a company that needs a nonnihil, I would love to know about it. Particularly if it isn't in telecoms!
(* From a purely conservation-of-angular-momentum perpective, I question whether one can be said to "spin off" a larger and more massive object -- surely it is oneself that is offspun!)
Sep. 12th, 2008
09:55 am - The Dark and Obscure Art of the Phone Interview
Being in the midst of a job hunt, I am doing a lot of phone interviews. Because I hate phone interviews with the burning fury of a thousand suns, I would very much prefer that the phone interviews that must be conducted yield a maximum amount of useful information in a minimum of time, so that I don't have to do, eg, four or more phone interviews with the same company.
( nonnihil explains how not to suck )So take heed, all of you: It can be done right, you just aren't doing it that way.
Sep. 5th, 2008
09:05 am - "...but time and chance happen to them all."
I've just found out that my company will turn back into a pumpkin ("suspend active operations") on the 30th. Three and a half weeks to take down the sites, shut down the networks, stick the demos on autopilot, raid the phone buckets for spare parts, and so forth.
We've had a good run of it, mind you. Five years is well over par in this business, especially if you're silly enough to get involved in mobile and music at the same time, ie, the two technology businesses most appallingly dominated by soul-blightingly evil wannabe-monopolists. We came very close to success at least twice and we're going out largely intact, which is a testament to our CEO's skills (not that he'd see it that way -- he's utterly devastated at the moment, taking it harder than any of the rest of us).
Anyway, this also means that I'm back on the job market. My resumé can be found here if you happen to be in the market for a Senior Software Engineer or something similar.