Monday morning at the new job

[cjsmith]

Signed forms, have temporary desk (cubes being built out now for tomorrow), received card key, attended first meeting, am now browsing lots of overview material on the design and implementation of the product. Previous entry is public now.

I'm actually getting excited. Usually I'm just feeling "OK, here's a job, hop to it." Now I'm feeling "Hey, cool and fun!" It's eerie. I hope it lasts. :-)

Comments

Re: No big bonus for me. :-(

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I had to notify Google yesterday afternoon because I'd signed here. *sigh* I feel bad about that; it's the second time I've been too quick for Google to catch, and I DO think Google would be a great place for me to work.

Apologies about those big bonus bucks! I guess you'll have to get those by writing Google Flight Track or something. ;-)

I can tell you either who they are or what they do, I suppose. I don't know what's public and what's not! I'll shoot you an e-mail.

Re: No big bonus for me. :-(

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

Oh, so the contact I gave you at Google didn't work out?

Does company M need any Q/A people in NY or NJ? If so, let me know.

Re: No big bonus for me. :-(

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I had already submitted my resume to Google, but by the time they got a phone interview arranged, I had an offer from Company M saying "We want an answer within 24 hours". Timing!!

We don't, but we badly need a Q/A person in Sunnyvale. We're looking for a contractor but would be happy to hire full time if things work out. You wouldn't feel like taking a California vacation from, say, July 1 to end of September, would you? :-)