11 01 05 273 W - + 3 - 1 No longer renegade

Went in for another interview at Octopi.  Last time they'd liked me, but had liked other applicants better.  Nothing wrong with that, Adam is a phenomenal coder, I'd have hired him over me too.  Still, I jumped like a gay dog through flaming hoops when I found out they had another opening, and had another interview today.  Since they'd already asked me all the questions last time, this was more of a portfolio, so I showed them my blinged-out pong and pacman, both written in Java, both solid, shiny and leet.  They asked a couple "We're working on this, how would you design the code, how would you approach it, what parts would you put on the client, what on the server" things, and I"d kind of had to think a lot of that through before, so I had solid answers.  Still, I was worried, because this whole "You're good, but spaces are limited, and that guy over there is better" tune I'd heard from a couple different places was getting old.  Like, Streisand old.

Got this in the email today.  It's paraphrased/madlibbed for pure entertainment purposes.

"Dear Shaggy-
 We would like to offer you a job at Octopi.  Your official title would be Codemonkey, and you'd have the following responsibilities.
    *Programmatic unleashing of fury
    *Execution of leetness

You will have a wage (sidenote, don't care.  I have a job!), and health insurance if you want (sidenote, kinda sick)
We'd like you to start immediately.
-Octopi
"

Woot to the max!
-Alex

does a little happy dance
andrewo - 11 02 05 - 12:11

GRATS MAN! Something tells me that programming games to play on a traveling device to pass the time while you probably have something better to do, but don’t want to do it….well that sounds like the job for you man. grats again!
Jerome - 11 02 05 - 19:21

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
Lissa - 11 03 05 - 16:36

Huzzah!
J to the B - 11 04 05 - 00:18

Yay! Way to go, Alex!
Fork - 11 05 05 - 14:02

That is so fucking awesome! You are my hero. And now send me games (j/k)
Clara - 11 05 05 - 22:02

question: Tell us more about the photo at the top of your page. I guess that’s a command. Well, anyway… Is that your foot? Who was driving? Where were you going?
Jenny the Bee - 11 07 05 - 19:56

I’m fairly certain I let you know how overjoyed I was for you, but now my praise is immortalized over ze Intarweb!! Rock on, vato.
WTF Crow - 11 08 05 - 13:41


  
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