Followup to:
http://www.crazyontap.com/topic.php?TopicId=9936#125462

It went very well and I'm probably hired.  It will be a trial by fire, though.  Should make the next few weeks really interesting.

So...does that mean......cough...cough...the end of CoT?

Why?

I thought it was hosted at your current employers?

Actually it's hosted at my *past* employers...  and I'm not quiting my current job, I'm just adding another.

It's a good day when one can inquire about resumes formats on Friday, and feel confident about having a job on Tuesday.

He isnt in America.  It is only in America where it is a long, retarded process.

Bot Berlin,

He got reference by his friend who would have got the job if he had time.

That makes a world of difference :)

Well, at least in America the interview process includes oral sex.

It also makes a difference that the course I'm teaching starts in a little over a week and they've already gone through a number of cancellations.  Basically, I'm their last hope.

No, we have long, retarded processes here in Canada, too, and certainly in the Vancouver area.

This isn't exactly relevant, but I like the story:

There was a company here called Glenayre which _used_ to make pagers.  For years, they went through a process of hiring EEs, then laying them, then hiring again...  After the last round of hiring, they started building a fancy new building (I have a fridge magnet with the slogan "Building our Future), then the parent company in the US decided they didn't want to be in the paging business any more and they closed the whole place, about 5 or 6 years ago.  The new building sat empty for at least 3 years, it only just started to be occupied a few months ago. 

And, even though the building was built on a bog, the president of Glenayre wanted an underground parking lot, so they had to constantly pump it out or the lower couple levels of the lot would be flooded.  After deciding to shut the whole operation down, the parent company's plan for dealing with irate neighbors who were constantly getting flooded when the pumping overwhelmed the local pipes was to budget some money to fight lawsuits.

Glad to know the corporate world in Canada is just as screwed up as it is here.  Although to be honest, building on a bog here would get you into seriously deep shit.  We've got a lunatic here in Michigan who has spent his last ten years or more trying it.  All of his budget goes to fighting very expensive lawsuits with the various branches of government.

They got approval to build on the bog, but the president didn't want an unsightly above-ground parkade, so they put in big pumps.  Everyone knew (even the people that worked there) that the company was really screwed up, but it was one of the big employers of EEs, so lots of people were willing to work for them because it wasn't just software.

What are you going to be teaching? I think you mentioned it, but I forgot.

If it is compsci related, tell them not to major in compsci and that computer jobs suck.

Are you open to the possibility that it isn't that computer jobs suck, but that you're lazy and haven't put in the effort to seek or train yourself for a good job in computers or anything else?  After a certain point, if your job sucks, it's your fault.

Well, Cynic Al, I love what I do most of the time.

What I don't like is the market being flooded with wannabes.

"Let me help you help me. Get out of this field, the competition (for me) is too tough."

do you work with wannabes? that would be hell.

otherwise I can't see why you would care.  someone has to write the stupid code that does stupid stuff like count beans or bugs or whatever.

they can't all write trading applications for a living, can we?

Yeah, not many people need to know or use greedy algorithm!

wrong thread tang? broken bot?

"greedy algorithm"

LOL.  That's good.  If I ever meet a trading programmer, the first thing I'm going to say is "oh, you write greedy algorithms.  How nice."

Give me back my algorithm, Commie.