Some years ago I went to an open house to one of the big IT companies in the city.

First thing of course was the sales pitch of the company itself, the benefits of working there and the impact you will be making.

After that there was the job interview, I applied to Weblogic position and Java.

All the persons that applied to Java were moved to a room to play something like kahoot, by some reason I wasn’t moved with them, so I was kind of like of just hanging in there.

I asked about the WLS position and they redirected me to the General Director of the company on Guadalajara.

The general director seemed convinced enough with my credentials and he invited another guy to interview.

I had a cold and a sore throat that didn’t allowed to raise my voice a lot, so I had to clear my throat every time I spoke, the guy interviewing didn’t seem to happy about that because he was pressuring me to answer louder and faster, which I found rude because it was noticeable that I wasn’t OK nor my voice. I answered almost all of the questions correctly but one stuck to my mind

I: How much memory can you have if you are using a 32 bit system?

M: Little less than 4 GB.

I: How much exactly?

M: If I remember correctly you can use 2 power 28.

I: Why?

M: Because 4 bits are used for the instruction and 28 are used for memory address.

I:So, what does that mean?

M: That even if you have 8 GB of RAM, you will only be able to address memories up to 2 power 28.

I: So exactly how many bits will be addressable?

M: 2 power 28

I: Can you tell me the exact number?

M: If you give me a calculator I can, I just know is 2 power 28, which is less than 4 GB.

I don’t know what the hell did he want me to do, multiply 1024x1024x256 in my mind and tell him the number?

Anyways even with that seems like the general director wanted me there, so he told me that I will be trained on some legacy systems which would incur the company into some costs , so I will have to sign a voucher in case I quit before 3 years I will have to reimburse the company the training provided to me. I told him that I wasn’t OK with that because my family just moved to MX and I wasn’t sure I was going to stay on the same city for that long.

I can’t believe that they wanted me to sign a voucher for a legacy training.