Progress Report
The interview with Kush Games did not go well, in my opinion. It probably also didn’t help that it didn’t seem like they were looking for someone entry level or that their programming tests when I got there were pretty ridiculous. So I wasn’t wildly surprised when a few days later I got an email from them saying they didn’t have any openings for me. I’ve already described what I thought about their whole interview process to so many people that I’m sure I’m going to leave something out and this will sound even more like a sore loser, but suffice it to say I probably wouldn’t have taken the job had they offered it to me. Why make someone travel across the country in order to do more tests that could have been done without all the wasted time and expense of traveling? Then on top of that, the one problem that I had real difficulties with was one that you would have a huge advantage with had you seen the solution before, which is the worst test of a person’s abilities possible. Anyways, enough bitching, I didn’t get a job I probably wouldn’t have liked and that’s over.
Moving on, when I returned from California, I discovered I had an email from Big Huge Games inviting me out to an on-site interview with them. They offered two dates, so I emailed them back saying I preferred the first date. I didn’t get an email back confirming the date or any travel information, so I emailed them again. Today is the day the interview would have been had anything happened. I did everything I could think of to try to make this interview work without having a phone number I could call and clarify what was going on, which, as far as I can tell, isn’t published anywhere. So I’m feeling pretty jerked around from every direction right now. Hopefully my next round of applications and interview goes a bit better than the first round.
That sux Kush Games was like no. But for BHG, maybe DJ got to them first!