Hurray for me!

Well I got me a new job. It's with a small company in the Triangle that does mobile content delivery. THey have a couple big time customers and are growing rapidly. It was the hardest interview I've ever been on though. First they screen out potential candidates by making them take a technical test. It consisted of a couple programming questions, dealing with refactoring and some basic Java architecture questions. I submitted it back to the recruiter at like 7pm and by 7:30pm they had scheduled me for an interview. The interview was with a total of 5 people and lasted about 2 1/2 hours. 2 of their developers interviewed me on personality to see if I would be a good fit with their team. Then I had 2 more developers ask technical questions which were pretty in-depth. A lot of Java language semantics and pattern questions. Then I met with the director of development for about 30 minutes who asked pretty much the same things again except really quickly. The interview was over at around noon and by 3pm that same day they gave me an offer.

Needless to say I took it. The cool thing is it's just a 2 1/2 minute drive from my house. I should be riding my bike, but I need a helmet first. Wondering if I should get some speedos as well ;)

Their software is pretty well designed, with lots of design patterns involved. They use a lot of servlets, JSPs, and EJBs. My EJB skills kinda stink, but I think this is a great opportunity to get up to speed on the technology. They're gonna undergo a major refactoring soon, and there's talk of using Spring, Struts, and Hibernate. It's going to be a great job with lots of cool stuff going on.