Wow, it’s May already. The weather is amazing but what else is new. I had a three hour interview with all sorts of people today. I was SO nervous but relaxed once I got there. I kept thinking about how I would react if I had to do a code challenge of some sort. I just knew I would have major performance anxiety. Andrew kept telling me to just relax and that I know stuff and that I am perfectly capable and I do and I am but when put on the spot I freeze. It’s like a childhood trauma thing. My dad, with the best of intentions, used to randomly quiz me on my times tables. To this very day if someone asks me something as simple as “What is 7 times 9?” I will most likely freeze and be unable to answer. If I think a question is some sort of a quiz I freeze. It’s really annoying! But I was worried about this during the interview.
I showed up right on time and was so pleased to see an office dog! And then another! I would love to work somewhere that has dogs to hang out with. The building is really nice and the office was not too giant and not too small. I’d say it was cozy 🙂 I was offered something to drink so I requested tea and then went into a meeting room where I ended up staying for the entire time. I was asked several times if I needed a break but I didn’t. I’m pretty good at sitting.
The first two people I met with were developers. We had a great conversation and then one of them asked me to explain something. Ack! It felt like a quiz! Yeah, I panicked. I stumbled and fumbled over my words. All he had asked of me was to explain the general idea of an AJAX request. SO easy!! I couldn’t do it. I was just so sure I was going to say something wrong that I pretty much said everything wrong. They were both really nice about it though. He offered to explain it to me and I accepted and felt so dumb as he told me what I already knew. Andrew was going to be slightly frustrated to hear this. The rest of the interviews were great. Everyone was incredibly nice and honestly either way I had a great day just getting to meet some really nice people and see what a happy and cohesive team they are. I’d love to be a part of that because they sure have a great thing going. I’m happy for them!
I got home and surprise, surprise. Another company that has been, what feels like stringing me along sent me a coding challenge. I’m going to do it for the practice for sure but they have definitely shown me that they aren’t a place where I would be happy. I don’t feel like I matter to them at all. I’m sure they will find someone who is the perfect fit but I don’t believe that’s me.
Andrew and I took a walk to New Seasons and got some things for dinner. We were finally able to harvest an ingredient from our garden! We used the beet tops and sauteed them with onion, garlic, peas, red beans and spiral pasta. Wayne took care of the seasoning. It was delicious! We had a strawberry we were watching ripen. It was the very first one and it was beautiful. Someone, not our family, got to it before we did though. Oh well. We are going to have more than we will know what to do with though. The plants look like they are covered with snow because there are so many blossoms. Pies all summer I guess!
Today I learned about various salaries via #talkpay on Twitter. Very interesting!