Cyde Weys Musings

Boy, I’m sure glad that I have a schedule this semester with no classes on Friday, because I’d be missing all of them. It seems like every interviewing process I’m getting involved in has interviews on Friday. Next Friday I have an all-day interview in Virginia; two Fridays after that, I have an all-day interview in Pennsylvania. I’m also in more preliminary stages of interviewing with several other companies, and I don’t doubt that my other Fridays are going to fill up as well. Fridays are especially popular with the consultancy businesses, which generally have their people fly out to the location for Monday through Thursday and then return to the home office on Friday. So the only time any of them are really free to conduct interviews is on Friday.

Come to think of it, I think the undergraduate computer science advisers should recommend that second semester seniors don’t take any classes on Fridays. It worked out for me serendipitously, but in the absence of this advice, I could’ve easily made a mistake and ended up missing a good number of my classes. I think I’ll go dash off an email to the head adviser.

I hope that, by the end of this large interviewing process with many companies, I’ll have a job that I enjoy and that really uses my skills and abilities. That’s really all I’m looking for. Oh, and money wouldn’t hurt.

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