So many stressful days so close together and I had another interview today. I was back at Urban Airship but this time interviewing for a position that would involve programming. It sounded like a really great job doing fun and interesting things. I didn’t have to be there until early afternoon so I took my time in the morning and tried not to stress.
About an hour before it was time to leave I got a call from Chris at DreamHost. They wanted to offer me the position! Mind blown! I knew the interview wasn’t nearly as bad as the one at Cozy (because that one was a complete, fucking disaster) but I still stumbled my way through some really easy stuff. Anyway, I told Chris that I was really happy about the offer but that I wanted to talk about the salary. He said that was fine so we moved into the negotiation phase.
Meanwhile I had to get down to UA. Cherice met me in the lobby and it was so nice to see her. She has always been wonderful. We went upstairs, I made some tea then moved to the meeting room. I first met with a project manager and he was great. We chatted about the position and UA in general until his time was up. Next I met with a member of customer success. He was also great. Everyone at UA is very nice and welcoming. Each person knew that I had already been at UA for an internship so there was a lot we didn’t need to discuss. The next meeting was supposed to be a video chat but due to technical difficulties we had an audio only connection. He was a member of dev/ops and is based in San Francisco. He asked me some questions about JavaScript, Python, Git and databases that I felt were very basic. I don’t think I had any trouble answering them unless I was unclear about what he was asking me. Next up was the engineering manager. He was really nice to talk to. He didn’t ask me anything technical which was fine by me! John was the final person I saw and he had me whiteboard some very basic Python stuff. I was nervous but not terribly so and I muddled through. Whew, it was over and it wasn’t that bad. Four hours flew by. I let Cherice know that I had gotten a job offer that day in case that helped them decide one way or another sooner.
While I was still in the lobby waiting for Wayne to pick me up Chris called back and let me know what the salary offer was. I wasn’t happy with it so I told him what I thought was fair. He said he would find out and call me back the next day. Great!
Wayne picked me up and we ran into the grocery store for some dinner ingredients. We were having Heather, the author of Food Not Lawns over as a guest of Alice so were making most everything with stuff from the gardens. We had a big pot of potato soup, salad, homemade sourdough and strawberry rhubarb pie. It was the six of us, Alice, Jason, Dale, Miri, baby Michael, Taylor, Delaney, Heather, John, Spencer and Mulyssa our neighbor who is a landscape architect and the impetus behind Pesticide Free Overlook. Jason and Kristin joined us later when most everyone was gone but we got to tour their sweet RV!
Today I learned that at least one company thinks I am worth hiring!