Well I just got back from my first "real" job interview ...

[purbeast0]

Well I just got back from my first job interview. I think it went well. The position is for a software engineer. I have never had a 'real' job yet, as I just graduated from college in May. The company is called Electromotive, Inc. and it's linked as well.

It sounds pretty cool though what they do. They make stuff for race cars, and they were telling me that most of their customers run cars that run under 7 second quarter miles, which is pretty damn fast. So it's not for everyday riced out cars, but the real deal.

I would be programming in Visual Basic, as well as Assembly language (which I have never had hands on experience with, just written assembly on paper for classes). They are also thinking about converting the whole app from VB to C++ or something else, and would also like to be able to get it to run on PDA's so that customer's won't HAVE to have a laptop to connect their PC to their car to run the software, but instead spend $300 on a PDA or something and run it from that.

All in all the job sounds like it would be awesome! The commute is about 30-35 mins, and its going OPPOSITE of the typical work traffic pattern, so thats always good . The salary I asked for was $50k/yr and they sounded like they had no problems with that either. The benefits were great as well. 2 weeks paid vacation, 1 week of sick leave, and they also take a trip to the Indy 500 every year, as well as to this huge car show in Vegas (i forget the name), and its all paid by them for the employees to go, so that also sounded cool

Well I hope I get the job! I am kinda excited from the way the interview went

 

[RagingBITCH]

Congrats

 

[Ogg]

:thumbsup:

 

[HamSupLo]

Originally posted by: Ogg
:thumbsup:

 

[Leetman]

Nice.

 

[pyonir]

Cool. Good luck man!

 

[apac]

Damn that does sound like a cool job. :thumbsup:

 

[Atomicus]

nitrorific :thumbsup:

 

[purbeast0]

Yea thanks guys. I just hope I don't get too excited and then not end up getting it . But I will just keep my hopes up.

Oh, and the guy who interviewed me really liked my car, so we were talkin about it and what I have done to it so far and what I should do to it more

 

[DT4K]

:thumbsup:

If you get the job and have any influence, push to get the app converted to C# or C++ or Java.
3 years from now, you don't want to be stuck only having experience in VB.
Trust me, it makes it very difficult to get a good job.

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: DT4K
:thumbsup:

If you get the job and have any influence, push to get the app converted to C# or C++ or Java.
3 years from now, you don't want to be stuck only having experience in VB.
Trust me, it makes it very difficult to get a good job.

Yea I agree. They were talking to me about that actually, changing it to whatever I wanted. I was thinking C++. Because right now it only works on windows. They want it to run on versions of windows and the PALM OS as well, so that people can use PDA's to run the software instead of a $2000 laptop. It would be a cool project, and I don't think it would be too hard, especially after looking at some of the code real quick that he opened for me.

 

[DT4K]

Originally posted by: purbeast0

Originally posted by: DT4K
:thumbsup:

If you get the job and have any influence, push to get the app converted to C# or C++ or Java.
3 years from now, you don't want to be stuck only having experience in VB.
Trust me, it makes it very difficult to get a good job.

Yea I agree. They were talking to me about that actually, changing it to whatever I wanted. I was thinking C++. Because right now it only works on windows. They want it to run on versions of windows and the PALM OS as well, so that people can use PDA's to run the software instead of a $2000 laptop. It would be a cool project, and I don't think it would be too hard, especially after looking at some of the code real quick that he opened for me.

Just make sure you don't tell them you want to convert it so you will have better job prospects later.
Should be pretty easy to come up with valid reasons to switch.

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: DT4K

Originally posted by: purbeast0

Originally posted by: DT4K
:thumbsup:

If you get the job and have any influence, push to get the app converted to C# or C++ or Java.
3 years from now, you don't want to be stuck only having experience in VB.
Trust me, it makes it very difficult to get a good job.

Yea I agree. They were talking to me about that actually, changing it to whatever I wanted. I was thinking C++. Because right now it only works on windows. They want it to run on versions of windows and the PALM OS as well, so that people can use PDA's to run the software instead of a $2000 laptop. It would be a cool project, and I don't think it would be too hard, especially after looking at some of the code real quick that he opened for me.

Just make sure you don't tell them you want to convert it so you will have better job prospects later.
Should be pretty easy to come up with valid reasons to switch.

Oh yea, i won't say that for sure. It's just that they already mentioned the conversion over to C++ in the interview, so they are already considering it.

 

[Supermercado]

Good luck. If you get the job, pass some of the luck my way. I graduated in May, too, and can't find a thing.

 

[LordSnailz]

yuck, assembly language! =) good luck, hope you get it!

 

[andylawcc]

not everyone get to work in a company that makes sub-7 seconds car for their customers...

 

[The Stigenator]

huge auto show = SEMA..

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: The_good_guy
huge auto show = SEMA..

Yea that was it, I remembered it began with an S. All in all it sounded sweet to be able to be on the side of the 7 second cars representing the company ... and im just gonna be a software engineer if i get it