Still More Interviews

Well…one as it turns out. I was scheduled for two interviews in the afternoon on Tuesday and met with my recruiter at around noon to look at information about these companies. On the way in I had stopped and done some research on the first interview, but for the second their website was under construction, so I could only look at what my recruiter had available. When I got there he informed me that the second interview with Frank Ennis & Associates had been canceled due to a client meeting emergency. This only left one interview, fairly nearby, which was OK with me after the previous days set and what was ahead for Wednesday. He gave me information on that days interview as well as everything for the next, and I headed on to the meeting.

At 2:15 pm (it turns out that because most businesses not opening until 9am, lunches are typically taken between 1-2pm, hence the common 2pm time slot for meetings) I met on of the founders of Murray O'Laoire, Sean O’Laoire, and one of his assistant directors. This company was doing some fairly interesting work, especially in relation to their interest in green architecture and technologies. I got a good feeling from both of my interviewers, but unfortunately they had made some mistakes with scheduling, had set up two interviews on top of each other, so they rushed through the interview quite a bit. After 20-30 minutes (instead of the hour I seemed to be spending with just about everyone else) they booted me out the door and moved on to their next meeting. I liked them well enough and, all things considered, placed them in the middle of the pack for my interest, but expected that the rush would have some impact on the impression I left with them (or would have liked to leave, had I gotten the time). One funny note (well…funny to me anyway) was that this was one of the first companies that ever used PowerCADD (which is a less common Macintosh based drafting program, which I have been using and teaching for the last two years) in a professional sense (I even found an old article on it in the PowerCADD website when I was doing some research), so I talked to them a little bit about that. They have since switched to using Microstation.

In the end, this company also declined to give me an offer based on experience requirements, specifically the small scale of projects that I had experience with.

The rest of the afternoon and evening were spent on the internet doing more research on Wednesday’s interviews and catching up with Mariah and my mom on the internet phone.