{"id":257,"date":"2007-03-10T07:50:59","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T14:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/?p=257"},"modified":"2007-03-10T08:02:25","modified_gmt":"2007-03-10T15:02:25","slug":"accepted-a-job-at-solutionsiq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/accepted-a-job-at-solutionsiq\/","title":{"rendered":"Accepted a job at SolutionsIQ"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are two kinds of people in this world. The employed and the unemployed. The employed wish they had more time, and the unemployed wish they had a job. Unless your The Dude of course, as in, “The Dude abides.” (Speaking of his dudeness, the Lebowski fest <\/a> is occuring right now if you’re into bowling, bed races, or want to meet the inspiration for Jeff Bridges white russian sipping character). So make that three types. <\/p>\n

In any case, I’m happy to say that of those types, I’m a member of the employed persons club. While I had expected I was going to go through an agonizing job search process (collecting EI, sailing all the time, going fishing, going on extended bike trips, etc.) I was made an offer I couldn’t refuse. No, I didn’t find bertie’s head in my bed. I was offered a position at SolutionsIQ at their Professional Services Division, leading agile teams over in their Redmond office. How I ended up getting the job is an interesting story.<\/p>\n

On a whim, and on Phil my ex-boss’s advice, I went to a professional seminar on TDD <\/a>in early March, shortly after I was laid off from Metro One. I ended up touring their professional services division, where they practice what they preach to other companies, and do Scrum and XP for real projects. When I saw the floor to ceiling sheets of butcher paper with story cards written on them, monitors showing traffic light style red\/green pass\/fail status for tests, and the large bays with dual monitors for paired programming, I felt like I had come home. All the things I had been preaching to my organization, with some successes, they had implemented there from the ground up. So I was hooked. <\/p>\n

After the tour was over, I talked with my peers, people managing agile teams and those coaching agile in other organizations. I talked about the best way to convince a developers to do TDD with David Wiley and about my experiences leading geographically distributed teams using agile with Bryan Stallings. Then I gathered up my strength to ask if they were hiring, and, yes, they were. Then, “who is the decision maker”. And then “would you mind giving her my resume?”. It was this that got me the job, for a position that I don’t believe was advertised for, yet.<\/p>\n

While I had many calls from recruiters for short term gigs, at drugstore.com and at avenue-a-razorfish (yes, that is really their name), positions found, I might add, from the SolutionsIQ staffing division, the best job hunting experience was the one that involved meeting folks before there was an advertised position. I had no competition, and there wasn’t a long and involved decision making process on their end. I guess, sort of the difference between speed dating and the chance romantic encounter. Both can end up in a relationship, but the chance encounter is much more personal. <\/p>\n

I start on Monday, March 26th. So I still have some time to play. Thanks to everybody who gave me job advice and tolerated me during this last month. Thanks particularly go to Phil, my boss for pushing me to go to the seminar at SolutionsIQ in the first place, and Kei, for putting up with my manic job hunt this last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are two kinds of people in this world. The employed and the unemployed. The employed wish they had more time, and the unemployed wish they had a job. Unless your The Dude of course, as in, “The Dude abides.” (Speaking of his dudeness, the Lebowski fest is occuring right now if you’re into bowling, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/meherenow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}