New Job, Same Company

The day after the tool concert I had an interview in Austin. It's probably a good thing that I wasn't able to go to the concert. It was a panel interview with 7 people: 4 people who already had the position I was interviewing for, 2 managers, and a section manager. It was a little nerve racking, but it went well. Over the past 2 weeks I've been waiting for an answer, but the upper level manager who had to sign off on it was on vacation. Today I was called into my boss' office and was formally extended the offer. Needless to say, I was very excited. There have not been any formal announcements, but the only people who know about this website are the people who interviewed me, friends, and family. They still have to let other candidates know they didn't get the job and extend other offers, but I can breathe easily after 2 1/2 weeks of holding my breath.

The best part is I keep my building pension, 401k, and seniority which grants me some decent vacation time. Oh and I get a decent raise. In order to reward myself for sacrificing the tool concert, I bought myself a gift: A Logitech GT4 Steering wheel. I'll post a review in a few days.

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  1. Tim GourleyMay 26, 2006 at 1:10 AM

    Congratulations on your new job! What language are you going to be programming?

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  2. BJMay 26, 2006 at 3:49 PM

    The official answer is "everything under the Visual Studio 6 suite" (primarily asp stuff). The basic premise of the job however is to get stuff done by whatever means possible. They'll officially be starting training on .net near the end of the year, but I'll be free to use most anything that works on their systems. This opens it up to Java, anything that will run in Explorer 6, any fat client compiled code I can get running cleanly. The databases we are granted access to for projects are MS SQL 2000 databases. These will probably change over the next year, and a wide rollout of j2ee claims systems over the coming year, means a wider variety of options will become available.

    The beauty of the job is State Farm doesn't have a strict setup for development. Thie means the bottom line is I'm supposed to devote my energy to making everyone else's jobs easier by whatever means possible.  To let you know though, Java is freshest in my mind, since my school curriculum uses Java as the focal language for teaching general programming practice.

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  3. joeMay 29, 2006 at 4:30 PM

    Congrats on the job. Java Applets, though cumbersome in my experience, can do seriously heavy duty stuff both server side and client side. In fact, it was the reason the Internet exploded in the 90's, so my Java professor said, because it was the only way at the time to get any interactivity since HTML is limited to text and pictures. Sad that no one uses it on the net, but not a problem for an intranet where you can deploy the JRE to everyone. I'm totally excited for you and I appreciate the encouragement you gave me Sunday. I'm all psyched to start looking for jobs in the fall. : )

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  4. AndrewMay 31, 2006 at 1:46 AM

    Congrats man.

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