Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches
by DaiPlusPlus on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @06:36PM
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I interviewed for the superlative job title “Spaceflight systems avionics software engineer”. Contrary to your experience, I found the process to be very casual. They told me not to bring my resume, but to put together a PowerPoint presentation about my life. For one of my interviews the interviewing engineer didn’t even show up and his boss came in later and said (paraphrased): “you made it this far so I guess you’re good enough” and had me go see the next interviewer. It did take them 2 weeks to get back to me with the “We want to make you an offer”-call.
My biggest surprise was that they were (and I assume still are) running Windows 7 on their dev boxes.
Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches
by foota on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @06:54PM
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Imo that doesn't just sound casual, it sounds somewhat dysfunctional.
Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches
by tlrobinson on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @10:20PM
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> but to put together a PowerPoint presentation about my life
Wait what? This seems like a big red flag to me.
Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches
by DaiPlusPlus on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @03:59AM
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To be fair, they already had my resume from earlier-on in the application process.
Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches
by shepardrtc on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @09:16AM
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They sound like a mess. When an interviewer doesn't even show, that's not a good sign. When this boss says, "I guess you're good enough", that's a worse sign. This is rocket science, after all.
Re:SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches
by shrimp_emoji on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @07:15PM
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... My resume is terrible, but I'd rather bring it than a PowerPoint presentation about my life even if it was a million times worse.
They were the only company to ask in the interview about my college GPA (which wasn't good, I still don't remember the exact number and didn't at the time but it's below 3) and I didn't get an offer. But I'm kind of like you, naturally a slacker but in my jobs I've always managed to put out work that satisfies everyone it needs to (including myself, sometimes, but other times...) and meet deadlines, so 'tsall good.
Your last bit reminds me of a quote "I don't want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member". It's hard to accept praise or feel belonging knowing the full depths of one's faults which are only improving slowly. ;)