Tag: job hunt diary

One of the weirdest rejection letters I ever got was when I sent a resume and cover letter to Esquire magazine in the closing months of my senior year of college, looking…

I just got out of a painful interview. I had manager screening chats on Wednesday and Thursday of last week that turned into two interviews today and one tomorrow. Meanwhile, I went…

Freelancing update I just submitted my first portion of the freelance assignment, though there’s still plenty to do. I’m writing some “quickstart guides” for a well-known developer brand. This one let me…

Good news! I picked up a freelance assignment writing some dev content. It won’t pay my bills for long, but it’s money coming in instead of going out. Meanwhile, a couple of…

Notes on two job fairs, one I attended and one I can’t. Also, updates on the job hunt in general.

I wasn’t planning to write an entry today, but then I got a note from Microsoft. Hi Greg, We appreciate your interest in a career at Microsoft. Unfortunately, we will not be…

I had a couple of interviews today. I won’t say who with because it doesn’t feel right to name them unless I’ve either accepted an offer or decided I’ll never seek or…

Good news A bite. I’m waiting for invites to a full loop from one company and another is potentially going in that direction. Less good Meanwhile, I’ve gotten a number of “we’ve…

On the good side… Got through Hiring Manager and Recruiter screens with one start-up and it looks like I am headed toward a full interview round. I have a first call with…

Canonical had a couple of potentially biased questions on their job application that I called out in a previous blog post. I even called it out in my application, stating my university…

I got an InMail from an agency recruiter on LinkedIn just a moment ago. After the greeting, they said… I saw your extensive background working with C#, .net, and Azure. In the…

The “sparse resume” experiment from earlier in the month–where all the resume had was my years of experience in certain disciplines–didn’t get much response. So I went back to the old self-entertainment…

January 24, 2023 I was just applying for a role with Canonical, makers of the Ubuntu Linux distribution along with other tools and products. Honestly, I was tempted not to complete it…