Had my second interview with the guys down in Plano today. I’m not really sure how it went. First of all there was the time issue. I was sort of behind schedule leaving Wichita Falls due to some issues with the rental car I had. It basically stunk of smoke, so I had to return it for another one. After that was taken care of I flew home, got dressed and zoomed down there. Almost got lost a couple times, but nothing real serious.

But this is the interesting part right here. When I was five minutes away, I needed to use the restroom. I decided that it would be best if I don’t walk in there and the first thing out of my mouth is: “where’s your bathroom?”. So I stopped a couple minutes early at a gas station. Here’s the funny thing, my zipper broke right then and there. I guess that’s why you need a portfolio at at interview: to hide the fact that your fly is constantly open and can’t close.

Anyways, I had the interview with a Vice President of Development. Nice guy actually. We spoke about ambitions and what I want to do and stuff like that. Just the normal interview stuff.

After that, I was brought to meet the Chief Architect something something. These titles sometimes get me twisted. Basically he’s the main code guy. Makes the big decisions about what language when and where, stuff like that. He’s not a bad guy either. He gave me two quick quizzes I guess you could call them. The first was simply to reverse an array. After some thought, I came up with something that worked. The next dealt with classes in C++ and shallow copies vs. deep copies. Those terms I haven’t heard in a while so he probably things I’m a moron. And since I’ve been doing most of my current work in C#, the C++ stuff kind of had me mixed up. I didn’t totally bomb on it, but he had to help me along a number of places. If the main decision lies with him, then I’m totally screwed. I guess I should have studied harder huh?

I guess I’m just keeping my fingers crossed. After shelling out $70 for a rental and gas in one of my broke-est months ever, it would a disappointment, but hey that’s life. Let’s see what happens.

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