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I was trying to break into web programming from desktop programming, so I was willing to start with a relatively low salary to get my foot in the door. The int
by tabtab 8y ago
I was trying to break into web programming from desktop programming, so I was willing to start with a relatively low salary to get my foot in the door.
The interviewer asked what I expected as salary. I replied, "I'll accept peanuts to get started in web". A voice then rang out from a random cubicle: "Well that's exactly what they pay here!"
Another time an interviewer asked, "can you work well with difficult people?" Of course that set off a yellow alert in the back of my mind. Unfortunately, it was just after the dot-com crash and I couldn't be picky, so took the job. There was indeed a very good reason they asked that question.
- dawidw 8y agoCould you write some more about "difficult people" you worked with?
- tabtab 8y agoI worked in a small room with 3 IT employees. They all 3 had big quirks. (They'd probably count me as #4.) One guy, my de-facto supervisor, was from the military and brought military culture with him. He strictly dictated my tool-set and work-practice conventions without debate, which was the main reason I left. I could live with the other quirks. (My actual supervisor was in a different building and knew almost nothing about IT.) The other two people liked library-style quiet and rarely talked unless necessary for work, and were not sociable. I had a habit of talking to myself, such as grumbling about Microsoft. But, I had to quickly quel that habit. The least annoying guy liked classical music, which was something we had in common and the only non-IT chit-chat I did there. A toast to classical music! (clink clink)