Things have been pretty quiet here ony my blog of late, but there has been a reason!
Approximately 3 weeks ago my position at Perfect Information was made redundant and I focused my time at looking for future employment, as well as finishing up a few small side projects I’d been working on.
I’m absolutely overjoyed to say that last Tuesday I was officially offered (and accepted) a developer position with ThoughtWorks UK, somewhere I’ve always had an urge to apply to, but had always been quite scared by.
An old colleague of mine joined and had always had great things to say about the place, so I thought I’d give it a go. Whilst out on holiday I had an email asking me to get in touch to arrange a phone interview. Since then I’ve been through the phone interview, coding test, 2 developer interviews, some more intelligence/aptitude testing, personality tests and a further interview with a senior manager. But I made it. I’m to become part of Roy’s Social Experiment.
I’m thoroughly looking forward to getting started. My first day will be on the 2nd of May, and I’ll hopefully also get the chance to post a little about starting as an experienced hire, and what it’s like to be a ThoughtWorker.
In the meantime I’ll be catching up on some reading, writing, and of course coding. In particular, something really good fun I’m putting together that I hope to have released before then!
Until then, time to open something fizzy and alcoholic!