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[NickFitz]

Evening denizens

From one Premier Inn to another...

There was a bad crash on the A1, just to delay me a bit this afternoon

[zara_backdog]

Evening denizens

From one Premier Inn to another...

There was a bad crash on the A1, just to delay me a bit this afternoon

Evening

Got your 3G card then

[BrowneIssue]

Evening denizens

From one Premier Inn to another...

There was a bad crash on the A1, just to delay me a bit this afternoon

How was the interview?

[BrowneIssue]

From one Premier Inn to another...

Isn't that confusing when you wake up?

[BrowneIssue]

There was a bad crash on the A1

What would qualify is a good crash?

[NickFitz]

Evening

Got your 3G card then

Hi Zara

Yes, remembered it this time

[cailin maith]

Evening everyone

[zara_backdog]

Evening everyone

Evening CM

[BrowneIssue]

Evening everyone

I thought you were in the kitchen?

[NickFitz]

How was the interview?

Hi BI

I think it went reasonably well. Certainly the inital bit talking about past projects went OK. The some less focused talk about teams and agile and stuff. Then they got me to rough out a class diagram for an auction site on the whiteboard, and then just to keep them entertained I knocked together a suitable URL structure for such a thing. All of this seemed to be OK.

Then they abandoned me to a coding exercise

I never see the point of the way people do those. They give you some broken code and ask you to fix it, even though the role isn't maintenance, but new development. I always get so distracted by thinking how I would never have done it that way in the first place that I find it hard to concentrate.

If they'd just given me a spec for what it was supposed to do, I could have done the damn thing from scratch in the time allotted.

Then they overran on getting me out, because one of the blokes had been double-booked and was actually off doing another interview; so I pointed out to them that I had precisely forty minutes to get back to my hotel, pack, and check out

They managed to get back to me then; I gave them another few minutes of waffle and got the hell out of there.

It looks like a good place to work, and an interesting project, though. Still, they'll probably be unwilling to wait until the current gig is over

Right, I'm going to have some dinner

Later all