12/12/06 Update: Well I'm being brought back for a second interview (tomorrow) with the same company so I guess 2 out of 3 wasn't too bad. I just need to make sure I don't space out again. 
Now here's something... I received another call for an interview with another company for this Wednesday. I've already postponed once last week due to my work schedule and the interview with this first company. So I could be missing Tuesday and Wednesday from work to go to these interviews. Good idea? Bad idea?
New Cliffs:
1. First company brings me back for second interview tomorrow, Tuesday
2. Second company calls and wants to schedule an interview for Wednesday after I canceled on them last week
I had an interview today with a software vendor that works with some of the top financial and healthcare institutions in the world. To give you an idea of my current job situation, I work for a government agency that is filthy, no climate control (we had no AC for a good stretch of the summer), and makes you pay for water, soap, and your own office supplies. So whenever a company with clean carpets comes calling for an interview, I'm excited.
Anyway, at this software vendor's main office, I was introduced to 3 different people; their corporate recruiter, their senior network admin and their windows manager who I guess is their top help desk guy. I did pretty well with the first two people and I thought that I developed a pretty good rapport with them. The network admin asked me some server-related questions and cisco stuff and I gave him excellent and clear answers. Then came the Windows Manager, which was supposed to be the easiest part since most of my experience from my current job is desktop support, and things went downhill fast. He asked me some really generic technical questions to gauge how much I know about desktop support and inexplicably I could not answer him. Even worse, I blabbered some of the answers so I sounded like an incoherent mess. I don't know if this was a result of having not interviewed in a long while or what, but it definitely left him with an impression I was clueless. He asked me what scripting languages I knew (I'm pretty proficient with vbscript which is what I should have said) but unbelievably I responded C++. He asked me some other stuff like differences between ide and scsi, what is dhcp scope, some dns stuff, all of which i could easily answer in any other day. Yuck. This has never happened to me before. What drives me nuts is that these were similar questions that were posed to me when I interviewed for my current job and I did very well then.
Cripes, sucks that I spaced out because the company was definitely an ideal place for me to go to. I'm working desktop support now with little network responsibilities and I want to jump into something which will give me more exposure to the network side.
Cliffs:
1. went to interview. met three people.
2. did really well with HR person and Network person
3. brain turned itself off with the windows manager. worse yet, made myseef look stupid by responding with some silly answers
4. i pwned myself bad
5. ???
6. I am probably screwed
Now here's something... I received another call for an interview with another company for this Wednesday. I've already postponed once last week due to my work schedule and the interview with this first company. So I could be missing Tuesday and Wednesday from work to go to these interviews. Good idea? Bad idea?New Cliffs:
1. First company brings me back for second interview tomorrow, Tuesday
2. Second company calls and wants to schedule an interview for Wednesday after I canceled on them last week
I had an interview today with a software vendor that works with some of the top financial and healthcare institutions in the world. To give you an idea of my current job situation, I work for a government agency that is filthy, no climate control (we had no AC for a good stretch of the summer), and makes you pay for water, soap, and your own office supplies. So whenever a company with clean carpets comes calling for an interview, I'm excited.
Anyway, at this software vendor's main office, I was introduced to 3 different people; their corporate recruiter, their senior network admin and their windows manager who I guess is their top help desk guy. I did pretty well with the first two people and I thought that I developed a pretty good rapport with them. The network admin asked me some server-related questions and cisco stuff and I gave him excellent and clear answers. Then came the Windows Manager, which was supposed to be the easiest part since most of my experience from my current job is desktop support, and things went downhill fast. He asked me some really generic technical questions to gauge how much I know about desktop support and inexplicably I could not answer him. Even worse, I blabbered some of the answers so I sounded like an incoherent mess. I don't know if this was a result of having not interviewed in a long while or what, but it definitely left him with an impression I was clueless. He asked me what scripting languages I knew (I'm pretty proficient with vbscript which is what I should have said) but unbelievably I responded C++. He asked me some other stuff like differences between ide and scsi, what is dhcp scope, some dns stuff, all of which i could easily answer in any other day. Yuck. This has never happened to me before. What drives me nuts is that these were similar questions that were posed to me when I interviewed for my current job and I did very well then.
Cripes, sucks that I spaced out because the company was definitely an ideal place for me to go to. I'm working desktop support now with little network responsibilities and I want to jump into something which will give me more exposure to the network side.
Cliffs:
1. went to interview. met three people.
2. did really well with HR person and Network person
3. brain turned itself off with the windows manager. worse yet, made myseef look stupid by responding with some silly answers
4. i pwned myself bad
5. ???
6. I am probably screwed
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