Oh joy, another interview and it will include a technical challenge I’m sure. My stomach was even worse today. Maybe I don’t want a job that badly 🙂 But off I went anyway. My interview was at a co-working place I hadn’t been before. It’s really nice! I was meeting with Kyle and Chad. I know Chad from the Perl Monger’s meetings and had seen him last night. Kyle flew up from LA. Kyle was really nice and not intimidating at all. I could tell he’s just a really kind person.
They started off with some questions and that felt very comfortable. Chad asked me some “what would you do if…?” type questions and then of course Kyle gave me a technical question and I was supposed to write it in pseudocode. I hadn’t ever written something in pseudocode but ok. The question was something like “Determine the angle between two hands of an analog clock”. Uuuuhhh…..and queue the panic. It’s a circle so trigonometry….well the circle is 360 degrees….and we have minutes…..panic….calm down, you know this…..uuuuuh…..minutes to degrees……..panic…….seriously, calm down, you know this, you can do this…scratch trig, you don’t need it…..and so it went as I stumbled my way through the exercise which I, of course, completely over-thought. It ended up being SO easy and I was assuming it must be really hard. Kyle had mentioned that he had another question he wasn’t going to give me but I wanted to know what it was because I’m curious. It was fascinating and I learned some stuff I didn’t know. He was very nice to walk me through it. Also, I didn’t die! I haven’t a clue how I did at all and he said he’d let me know in a week. A WEEK?! I’d rather just assume I won’t be getting an offer and then I don’t have to stress about it for a week. If something different happens I can be happily surprised. Also, I didn’t die!
I went home and was totally ready for a looooooong nap. We had some new friends coming to stay for a few days. They are friends of Chris and Cherie and are passing through Portland on their way to Alaska. We love meeting new people and having them park at our house. Our next door neighbors aren’t so great about it though. They keep to themselves and don’t really like anyone in our neighborhood so they like to call parking enforcement when we have friends stay. Wayne knocked on their door a few times to let them know our friends would only be staying a couple of days but they never answered. He finally found out that they are out of town until Sunday and their son doesn’t care if the RV is out front. Sweet!
Kristin and Jason arrived in the early afternoon and wow are they nice! They have three adorable dogs too. Wayne gave them the tour of the house. It’s long and involved and they were very nice about it 🙂 We can’t wait to tour their RV! It’s a prototype they are testing out for a company so it has some interesting features. They got settled in and then headed downtown to see a co-worker who happened to also be in Portland.
Wayne, Andrew, Jordan and I went to Dove Vivi for some of their amazing pizza. It was busy so we had to wait for a table. We all sat outside and talked. At some point Wayne was looking across the street at a nearby brewery and was trying to read their sign. He doesn’t have glasses but probably needs some so had to really stare at it to make out the words. Apparently some weirdo guy had gotten into his car and for whatever reason thought Wayne was staring at him and he didn’t like that. We were all kind of shocked when the guy walked up to Wayne and said, “Can I help you?!” Wayne was confused and said, “What? No.” but the guy was pissed and said, “Do you have a problem?” Wayne said, “Yeah I can’t see very well and I was staring at the sign across the street to try and read it. I’m sorry.” He was genuinely apologetic. The guy said, “Well it looked like you were mean mugging me.” He would just NOT let it go and leave. I was aggravated and Jordan was amused so he started laughing. The guy didn’t like that at all and called Wayne’s “friend” and asshole. Jordan, told the guy that he was actually the one being a asshole for coming over and starting something. I thought things were going to get ugly but luckily the weirdo got in his car and left. Whew! We laughed it off after that but wow it was weird.
We finally got our table, had awesome pizza and then headed home to watch Black Hat with Alice and Jason. It was awful and I ended up falling asleep.
Today I learned that binary numbers make a beautiful pattern of 1s and 0s which totally makes sense when you think about it. I also learned about bit shifting as division. Fascinating!