I thought it would be appropriate to tell everyone of my job escapades over the past 2 weeks, since that has been taking a lot of my time recently and was why I wasn't in class on Thursday this week.
Tuesday (16th) I had a really full day. I had a final test in my sales class (where we had to network with industry professionals and then attract a buyer and sell to them. It was a four hour long process and was quite stressful. I had to dress in business formal (suit and tie) which was particularly interesting for me since I have no such wear. I ended up borrowing a roommate's suit which fit pretty well and more or less wore something from each of my roommates (boots from one, shirt/pants/suit from another, tie from another, belt from myself (yes!)). After this whole process of selling (which went pretty well - ended up getting a 96% on it which was 45% of my total grade), I was picked up by a stretch limo. On Wednesday, I had an interview planned with a company that I had worked for a few years over the summer, Beckman Coulter. They treated me very well. I had the limo completely to myself and it took me to an Embassy Suites in Indianapolis. I of course had a suite to myself and it was very well furnished. I had my own office, king bed, patio, 2 TVs, etc... For any who don't know, I'm completely new to this kind of life/treatment. I have only flown twice (round trips) the past 8ish years, never really stayed in hotels and if I did, only the cheap ones. I have never been in a limo. I've lived pretty cheaply. Well, the company left me some goodies that were waiting for me in the room, including a nice Purdue hat, a ton of junk food/treats and a card welcoming me to Indy. I got up the next day at 6:30 AM and went down to have an omelet prepared for me. I made sure to PT (work out) especially hard the night before since I never get up that early and needed to wear myself out to be able to fall asleep. At about 7:30, a limo picked up the candidates and took us on site. The building they have is completely new and very well furnished. We started with a tour of the building and saw some pretty awesome things. My favorite was the "command center" which is the central hub for customer service for Beckman. In this roughly 2 basketball court sized room they had a wall covered with about 40 by 20 LCD monitors which create a central, huge display. It had a map of the United States with heat maps for problems and the locations of service personnel. It also had three news stations and a list of servicemen and their current status. Apparently all the servicemen have GPS trackers which update their maps in real time. In front of this massive display, they had about 70 terminals for call operators, which had computers with a trifold array of monitors. It looked like something out of NASA's command center and was really impressive. The place had a ton of break rooms, fun things to do (puzzles, ping pong, wii's, huge gym, "DNA" cafeteria, etc...) and nice lab space. I was shown into my office, which was to be my "interrogation" room for the rest of the day. I was given more treats to help me through the rest of the day and waited for my first interview. I had in total about 7 interviews, each about 45 mins long and with two people quizzing me at a time. One of the interviews was a strict technical in depth knowledge one, another was a "how do you think" technical interview, a middle level technical interview, a user interface test, a personality test, HR company interview and any others I have forgotten about. We had catered lunch (BBQ!) and got finished at about 3PM. A limo took me back to campus and I got to wait for a call back. ....... This week, on Thursday (18th), I got a call from the college relations engineer and was given an offer to work there. I have the official paperwork in the mail to me, but I know the salary (which is pretty competitive). It's going to be weird making money. I'm so used to being in debt after paying for all my schooling. I'll finally be able to pay it all off in about half a year, which is going to be a great burden taken off my back. The job would be a 2 year rotation before settling down at a site. It is a tour of the company's locations and jobs in Florida, California, Minnesota and Indiana (among some others maybe). I will be working on half year projects and mostly in computer science. One of the jobs will be in something else (marketing, sales, service, etc...). Its going to be interesting figuring out if this is what fits me best in terms of my future and how it compares to my other offers.
(Coming up: Aprimo Interview)
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