I really AM glad to have met you

[cjsmith]

It is a pleasure to interview a candidate who is energetic, obviously smart, logical, and who seems genuinely to enjoy the work. It is sheer pleasure. So few people come in for programmer job interviews and... well... are or want to be programmers. This one I hope we get to keep.

Comments

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

Congratulations. I've been sitting in on interviews for a position in my department, and they...haven't been going at all well.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Ugh, my sympathies. Most of these haven't been going well either, but days like this make up for it. May you find a gem soon.

[genuine-snark.livejournal.com]

It's that way all around. Trying to hire gregarious, qualified, and motivated QA or automation folk for VMware is really difficult.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

*nod* Yeah, hiring good QA people is definitely rough too. I remember the first excellent candidate we saw. We later found out she wasn't interested in a new job; she was interested in getting better pay at her existing job. Start over...!

[gdaniels.livejournal.com]

Hiring good QA people is extra-super-rough. So many of them come into it thinking of it as some sort of stepping-stone to becoming a developer, rather than really appreciating how totally central QA should be to the entire development process, and how challenging it is. My hat's off to the really talented QA engineers out there, and even more so to the companies that foster cultures where QA and Dev are true peers!

Ok, off my soapbox now. :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

My hat's off to anyone who pays them as true peers.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

oh, definitely!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

She can even code. She applied for a job writing code and she can write code. This is most wondrous.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

the saddest thing is you're not even being sarcastic :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Not in the slightest. :-(