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DaveJ

(5,023 posts)
4. Again, Thank you. Your advice is great.
Tue Jul 24, 2012, 12:15 PM
Jul 2012

I went in there without looking at your advice first, and as expected did not get the job.

Actually, I was dreading the idea of working there after seeing the environment. People are literally shuttled in by the busload. They are crammed in like sardines. But I would have worked there anyway, and I would have done a good job, I need experience working with other techies. I do my best to get along with even the most vile personalities, because I'm just interested in the work being done. It's a Catch 22 situation, where I want to work with other technical people, but I lack experience working with other technical people. They have made themselves unapproachable, to me specifically it seems. It's sort of infuriating, especially the narrow mindedness of people who cannot see things from the perspective of other situations, and that there are so many people like that out there. Everyone there even LOOKS the same. (Not that's it's an old school environment, they probably think they are cool but they are very conformist, making IBM look like a circus carnival in comparison) The guy in charge did not ask any questions at all, he just put me on the spot from the moment he walked in the door and said "you got a thing for startups?" All he did was complain about the company. Again, it looked like a miserable environment. But I do want to work with other techies, I do not understand why everyone else gets to work with other except for me. It's ironic that I cannot get rid of the job I have now, yet nobody will hire me for any other job.

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