$result = interview(v2);

2005.05.20

i was corrected, i had a 3rd interview today, not a 2nd.

i was tasked with installing tomcat on winxp, which requires JDK or the JRE with additional components. i had 30min to do it now instead of 60min. they sat me down at the desktop and i got started downloading various components. however, i had no permissions to install applications, or run services! 👿

i had to pull the JDK directory from another computer because i couldn’t install it. i had to create my own CLASSPATH and JAVA_HOME environment variables and configure them manually.

since tomcat is written in java, you can run the .jar file from java /someopts

i didn’t do it all in time. i left that station and sat down with J2EE developers to talk java/jsp.

if they want someone who can get right in and run, they’ll hire someone else. the boss is out of town this week, me the week after. i’ll find out when i get back either way.

ed: although they seemed pretty excited that i knew some linux stuff.

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4 comments

  1. Umm, let me see.. they wanted you to install it in 30 minutes, without the appropriate permissions… manually configuring everything.

    Personally, around the time I found I didn’t have permissions, I’d have just started formatting hard disks as fast as I could, since I wouldn’t work for a place where their interviews are just some elitist “look what dicked up measurements we can do”…

    Hrmm, I think I sound bitter.

    jer, May 21, 2005
  2. they had a laptop set aside for candidates to work with, but the harddrive died. so, they sat us down at one of the actual every-day workstations with all the lockdown policies and such. “we’ll see if they can figure this out, as this is the kind of stuff we deal with every day on this team”

    Nick, May 21, 2005
  3. Everytime I think this place is normal corporate nonsense, I have remind myself it’s also a half-government job (public university). Sounds like a typical screw-up though. We botched something, didn’t plan for contingencies, and now we have to deal with it…

    Hopefully, you didn’t intimidate them too much, and they offer you a nice salary (the benefits are nice). Then again something nice on your side of town might be better. I’m still in shock over the paid time off policy, but I’m enjoying it.

    Nate, May 23, 2005
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