Ya know... I remember I had this one interview I had 3 years ago with this COOOL ass company. The initial interview went a little something like that... Brief intro thingie followed by - for lack of wanting to get too far into it: Interviewee Survivor.

Yes ladies and gentleman, in order to make it through, one had to answer one, call, then another, then another, then another .... Went on like this for some time with this COOOL company.

COOOL employee: "So on a scale of 1 through 10 where 10 is you wrote the book, how do you rate your networking skills"
Me: Ten
COOOL employee: And the ISBN is?
Me: Huh? Ah you mean LITERALLY WROTE A BOOK. Well in that case a 9...

Was an interesting interview however it was for hardcore systems clustering/admin/stuff which is not my forte although I'm familiar with HA, distributed computing, clustering. Just not on COOOL's PhD style terms. Needless to say... A lot of other things happened in the background where they came back and said... "Oh you... How about security digs..." California, etc., and this went on for some time. (5-6 weeks to be exact). I forgot what exactly happened at the end, they could have told me to piss off or I could have said no thanks, but I ended up using that as a bartering tool to get what I wanted at my existing company. Which was for MGMNT to STFU and let me do my job how I like doing it, courses, raise, etc., etc.

Nowadays I think that I've somehow made wrong choices in not making moves, but sometimes there is more to this than money, otherwise I'd register an LLC and work for myself. I get to do a lot where I'm at... Good luck with the wait and try not to forget sending a follow-up thank you email if possible: "Thank you for taking the time to speak with me today, etc, etc., shmooze shmooze. shmooze. I hope that I would be a good fit shmooze shmooze shmooze. I guess I should have emphasized that before in my previous post. Follow-ups help from time to time. Don't be afraid to send a "thank you for taking the time" message and know something... Even if you DON'T get the job, you never will know what tomorrow might bring...

Sil, that's hilarious!

Don't worry too much MatP. If you don't get a call, then they are poor employers (I always call back, even if they didn't get the job).

Nothing happens without a reason! Who knows, you may meet the woman of your life in another position! 



LOL !!!  Imagine if you would really have written a book, they would ahve been the ones saying: "Huh?"



If you have chosen freely, than I believe it is better sometimes to make bad decisions than to make no decisions at all! 

....or, for your sake, hopefully you fall into the situation I found myself this past February/March.

I phone interviewed for a job over 800 miles away. The interview lasted about 30-45 minutes and seemed to go well. I never know if I hit it out of the park 'cause you know self doubt.....

Anyway, three days later, I get a call from the HR contact telling me the offer would be in the mail the next day...

Good luck! These things always work out for the best in the end.....call it synchronicity....

Congrats!