--- title: "Job Interviews" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/3/24/job-interviews.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/3/24/job-interviews.html" published: "2003-03-24T19:34:00" updated: "2003-03-24T19:34:00" tags: [] author: "Roy Osherove" description: " 1st : Yes, I am looking for a new job and we are willing to relocate to the US *hint* ;) I had 2 job interviews today and one yesterday. Yesterday was for a large corporate type company for a .Net/VB6…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Job Interviews By Roy Osherove March 24, 2003 **Historical article** · Originally published March 24, 2003; technical details may be outdated. **1st**: Yes, I am looking for a new job and we are willing to relocate to the US \*hint\* ;) I had 2 job interviews today and one yesterday. Yesterday was for a large corporate type company for a .Net/VB6 development role. Today one was for a local internet applications company for web developer using asp/asp.net and later i got into an interesting interview with a small startup company that ,of course, claims to have the next big thing on their hands. what i saw was quite impressive. The main feeling though is first "Man, is great to be wanted again!". Ive been hunting job ads in the paper for the last 3-4 months and the dry spell i was having was amazing. It totally got me down. But now i feel much more confident about my future. **The first company** (corporate b0rg type) seemed really nice. I have never worked for a company this size before. The biggest place i worked in had 80 people working there. this one has a thousand. Hell, i'm excited to think we'd have our own dining hall! . plus, i think it would be a good experience for me to discover corporate life. perhaps fooling around with small startups with no job security was good for a while (but i still got a spark out of the last job interview  in that startup..) but now it's time to try and be useful for a change(my wife and I want to buy a house and later have some kids - i can't d that if i'm unemployed..). who knows. I am looking for a company that would take care of me just as i would take care of it - send me to courses, help me learn new things and generally [appreciate what i do](http://dotnetweblogs.com/Rosherove/Story/4192.aspx). That company looked like it provides those things. so that is something i would have to think long and hard about (provided , of course, that i would pass the next two interviews with them..). **The second company** wanted a web developer - which i am **not** at this time. however, they were impressed with my current skill set and did not reject me right away. tommorow i am having a conversation with one of their tech guys to see just how much effort and time would it be on my part to learn the web technology stuff. I never had any problem learning new stuff. I actually thrive on it so hopefully that door will not be shut to me. **The third company** - A startup - interview was held at the CEO's house. actually, his basement!. What he showed me there was quite an amazing piece of software (sorry, can't tell you) and i can definatly see a future for that product. They just got invested in and are looking for a few good people. I was one of the 20 they picked out. The company should be up and running in all new offices by April 1st and i got an offer to join - provided i pass the next interview. no talk of slary just yet. but it looked very interesting. One thing though - do i REALLY want to get mixed up in another startup affair? hell, i barely lived the current one (it isn't over yet - i'll shut up about it..). should i believe all the promises and sweet talk? god knows ive heard all this before (actually - some of the words were EXACTLY the same) and that didn't turn out very well. So . in the end i am left with 3 very different paths to take (well - none of them is a sure thing yet. actually the second one is almost a definite closed door..) : **1 - Corporate life (med-large size company - 1000 emp.)**\- more then fair salary/smaller mind/job security 2 - **Web developer life(small size company - 50 emp.)** - a smaller salary then today/fair amount of creativity allowed/job security not so good - maybe 1-3 years 3 - **Startup life** **(10 people and a dog)-** a much higher salary then today/very big mind and creativity allowed/No job security for more then a year Man. I wish i get to ponder which to choose. that would be a great feeling! But what do you think is the best course of action for me? **p.s** I just dicovered the [Microsoft Careers](http://dotnetweblogs.com/Rosherove/Story/4192.aspx) site, thanks to [Dev Hawk](http://devhawk.net/). Looks like i will be spending some time in the resume section over there .... --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. 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