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I've heard good things about them. The line of work they do sounds very interesting too.
A friend of a friend had a 2nd interview recently (the 1st was a telephone interview) for a Project Manager job I think. The first question they asked her was 'Tell us about what we do'. She didn't have a clue and the interview was terminated there and then. I know your not going to make that mistake though.
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I got caught on something like that many moons ago; some time in the early 90's. since then I have made a point of knowing as much about a company as is possible from public sources including criticism.
veni bibi saltavi
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The friend gives me a lift into work and it was somebody else at her agency that failed the interview. She was due to have an interview there also as we are getting rid of all our contractors at the end of next week but I think she's decided to put the job-hunting on ice till after Christmas now. I'll ask her Monday if she ever did go and pass on as much info as I can.
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Why are you raking up the past!!!! It's been 30+ years since I lived in Waterlooville. Going to Portsmouth was always a nightmare. Everything has been quietly laid to rest over those years and been forgotten. Now the nightmares will start again.
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Cool, what was you doing in this neck of the woods? Agree with you about going into Portsmouth, I try to avoid it as much as I can.
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I was working for Havant and Waterloo District Council designing and building a few of the new roads in the District; the road from the dual carriageway onto Hayling Island being one of them.
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xiecsuk wrote: the road from the dual carriageway onto Hayling Island being one of them.
Ah so it's you that I have to blame for the two lanes going into one palava.*
* I know it's not your fault, it's the idiots that race to get there first.
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The small dual carriageway piece is there because of the large number of people that used to work at the IBM site. It reduced congestion at the morning and afternoon peak times. I don't know how many work there now but my assumption would be "not many".
It was fun working on site. I used to get invited in for afternoon tea by the large houses on the right as you drive on to HI. It was, of course, to give them an update of progress and forewarning of any difficulties.
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xiecsuk wrote: The small dual carriageway piece is there because of the large number of people that used to work at the IBM site.
It's where I work now. Was IBM then Xyratex now Seagate. There is also Lockheed Martin on site aswell as a number of smaller businesses.
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As far as I know, IBM sold part of the drives business, possibly to Xyrates, and then moved the rest of the company elsewhere. I then worked for IBM at Warwick for 20 years before taking early retirement to go contracting.
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xiecsuk wrote: As far as I know, IBM sold part of the drives business, possibly to Xyrates
Yes that's correct. I think it happened late Eighties early Nineties, it was a management buy-out. A hedge-fund then got it's claws in in 2013 and eventually sold to Seagate, making those original mangers millionaires whilst the rest of us dodge round and round of redundancies.
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chriselst wrote: Pointless bloody disease ridden strips of cloth.
Only purpose to they serve is to remind you of meals you once had.
Presumably you're content with your shirt performing these vital services then? 
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Bow tie + fez == 
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That would be a tad naff, I always prefer to wear a pith helmet if I need to be extra smart.
veni bibi saltavi
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Especially to meetings. Then you can remove it to indicate that you are pithed off. 
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A black cloak, nothing less.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Please say you have something on under the cloak and NOT Sean's idea of casual wear!
veni bibi saltavi
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Last time I wore a black cloak, I also carried around about 30+ kg of chainmail, padding a helmet, a sword and a shield. Is that enough for your weak nerves? 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Still better than Sean au natural!
veni bibi saltavi
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I would not go to a gunfight with a knife and not to a crusade with nothing more than a black cloak.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Indeed! Who's going to wear that to work though? (See wot I did there?)
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Ahhh, tie fighters!
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Clearly they are referring to an ability to be REDUNDANT both verbally and clearly in their written communications!
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The irony of someone asking for good communication skills particularly written skills, and appearing to be in need of them themselves....priceless.
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chriselst wrote: As opposed to what?
Well obviously the position they are looking to fill will be the one writing the next job specification.
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