This must be the quickest process I ever had.
One Wednesday I received an email from an outside recruiter, I replied, got a call the same day and the very next day I got videoconference interview; There were couple of things I didn’t like about the interview, I was required to show my video but the interview didn’t and it started about 15 minutes after time.
Next Monday I got the job offer, took me some days to finally accepted…getting out of the confort zone takes some work =).
Wipro was probably my most confortable job that I ever had. I WFH, had options for work schedule(it varied every 2 weeks and I could choose or at least suggest), the job was quite easy and the paid was great.
There were different things that made me left, most important were:
A mechanics’ teacher of one of my dearest friends once told all his class that she started 3 master but didn’t complete any of them…he wasn’t so happy to know about but that’s beside the point.
In the spirit of showcase that the CV is just the prettiest side of your job historial, I will make a list of all the places I have applied for a job regardless I got the job or not:
| Year | Company | Output |
| Beginning 2011 | Professor UDG | Got the job |
| Beginning 2011 | Professor Proulex | Got the job |
| Beginning 2013 | Oracle |
Did 3 interviews, got 2 offers
|
| Beginning 2013 | IBM |
Not even got a screening interview
|
| Late 2015 | EPAM |
Got offer, rejected it
|
| Mid 2015 | Amdocs | Got rejected |
| Mdi 2015 | Oracle | Got the job |
| Beginning 2018 |
Not even got a screening interview
|
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| Late 2017 | MyTaxi@Germany |
Didn’t complete code challenge, I declined but company still interested
|
| Mid 2018 | Baxter |
Got offer, asked more before accepting and didn’t heard back from them
|
| Mid 2018 | Baires dev | Got rejected |
| Mid 2018 | Oracle | Got rejected |
| Mid 2018 | MBA Teacher @ UDG |
Got a job, not the same I applied
|
| Beginning 2019 | EPAM |
Not even got a screening interview
|
| Beginning 2019 | Oracle |
Got offer, rejected it
|
| Beginning 2019 | HCL | Got rejected |
| Mid 2019 | Professor@ITESO | Not even got a screening interview |
| Beginning 2019 | Wipro |
Got the offer, accepted
|
| Beginning 2019 | Amdocs |
Got offer, rejected it due to already accepted Wipro
|
| Beginning 2019 | TCS |
Got offer, rejected it due to already accepted Wipro
|
| Beginning 2019 | Crossover |
Applied to several positions, passed some filters, got rejected due to positions required more than initially stated
|
| Mid 2019 | Teacher @ Ms DS in UDG | Got the job |
| Late 2019 | Amdocs |
Got offer and accepted =)
|
I might have left some out, probably one or two that don’t stand out.
Remember my policy about interviews, if they first contact you, you take the interview and then decide if its a good move or not.
My last day @ CUCEI was also the last time I saw LACS alive.
There was a meeting scheduled the day before vacations and I decided to go, to share a last time with my professors who became my friends and then my co-workers/peers.
Once the meeting was over, we went to receive our payslip, I got mine pretty early but stayed talking with my “mother from CUCEI” on sideline.
Another friend came and we were all talking and then LACS turned up, so I went to say Hi as always, so we started talking until he was about to receive his payslip or after that, I don’t remember exactly.
The things we discussed:
Obviously @ the moment none of us thought that will be the last time we will see each other but it was, and it was the closest to a real goodbye with closure I will ever have from him.
I miss you big brother.
I loved Oracle, I met wonderful people there, had the best boss ever, got the chance to interact with experts on their fields and learned a lot from them.
I moved majorly because salary, when I joined I was being payed what I believe it was the top compensation for a recent grad, which was great, years passed I referred alumni to Oracle and they joined, they told me how happy they were to join and eventually we shared salaries, I was happy to know they were being payed what I believe was the top compensation for a recent grad…but they were making more money than me (nothing wrong with that, nothing against them) or my colleagues than joined at the same time, so I decided to explore the market again and saw that I could make more in another company, when I finally decided to make the move I increase little more than twice my monthly salary and almost twice the yearly one.
There were another minor factors, that were there couple of years before of that but none as important as that one.
I still love Oracle and think is a great company to be, maybe we will cross paths again, who knows.
I finished my 1st bachelors, graduated immediately, took a semester not enrolled to classes( but I attended) and then started my second bachelors.
In that semester off, I worked along some friends and all the directives of my campus(division) to create a festival with two branches: science and cultural. We had weekly meetings where we presented advances and discuss the progress of it; on one of those meetings the then head of the CS department told me that there was a sick teacher and she needed to fill the vacancy, so she asked me if I could do it, at first I was reluctant since I wasn’t attracted to teach but I accepted because it was her that asked; I ended up loving the job.
When the old curriculum generations ended, I was forced to move to the new curriculum , were my old class named workshop in systems programming, got called Translators I and compilers was named Translators II.
So when I was moved over the logical choice was to continue on Translators I,I wanted to go to distributed operative systems but a teacher of translators II resigned and my head of department needed somebody to teach that class, so he offered that class and I said yes…then he requested the class to be taught on english too.
I gave the class based on Stanford compilers class, that lasted for 2 semesters =).
After my gramps died, my grandma told me that in all the family I was the one most similar to him, the one who worked harder…I don’t think she said smarter but she said smart as him; and well thats a lot.
After LACS died, in his religious goodbye, my “mother from CUCEI” told me that I was the one most similar to him, smart and saw CS in a similar way…but I didn’t have the same areas of opportunity that he did have.
Those 2 are probably the best compliments I will ever receive…until somebody compare with my mom.
When I started on CUCEA I was only teaching in the Ms in marketing direction, so the head of the IT department invited me to also teach in bachelors degree, so I agree to give it a try…is been 3 years already =)