An interview? Where?
Today I had my first phone interview (well, second but that last one doesn't count...) this year. Hooray!
I think it went okay. It was with a company that sort of sounds like "Yippee!" and the position would involve helping marketing folks understand the activity logs generated by all those lonely people looking for other lonely, single people. Did this kind of work a lot a few years ago, but unlike say, answering phones or serving coffee, it's pretty easy to forget the proper SQL query for "how many distinct customers bought these two specific books in the same transaction on the same date?" Or how to grab the 2nd column of a file and count how many unique things in it -- something I could have done blind-folded a few years back but today I couldn't remember the simple phrase: cat file.txt | cut -f2 | sort -u | wc -l. (I did get part of it...)
The thing is, I need a job. The other thing is, I'm not passionate about solving these sorts of problems or helping marketing folks by generating nicely formatted reports for them. While for some it's a worthy cause to help the helpless, blind marketers of the world, I'm doubtful it will satisfy me. However, I have heard that "Yippee!" is a fun place to work.
It ought to be, with a name like that.
Today I had my first phone interview (well, second but that last one doesn't count...) this year. Hooray!
I think it went okay. It was with a company that sort of sounds like "Yippee!" and the position would involve helping marketing folks understand the activity logs generated by all those lonely people looking for other lonely, single people. Did this kind of work a lot a few years ago, but unlike say, answering phones or serving coffee, it's pretty easy to forget the proper SQL query for "how many distinct customers bought these two specific books in the same transaction on the same date?" Or how to grab the 2nd column of a file and count how many unique things in it -- something I could have done blind-folded a few years back but today I couldn't remember the simple phrase: cat file.txt | cut -f2 | sort -u | wc -l. (I did get part of it...)
The thing is, I need a job. The other thing is, I'm not passionate about solving these sorts of problems or helping marketing folks by generating nicely formatted reports for them. While for some it's a worthy cause to help the helpless, blind marketers of the world, I'm doubtful it will satisfy me. However, I have heard that "Yippee!" is a fun place to work.
It ought to be, with a name like that.
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