Found a job!!!

Well it’s been sometime since I updated this blog but that’s mainly because there hasn’t been anything eventful that has happened. For the last couple of weeks, it’s been pretty much job hunting everyday. What’s quite surprising is that I’ve had job interviews pretty much everyday and it does leave the brain a bit drained to do anything after that.

Anyway, after a few weeks of job hunting, I’ve finally settled and decided to join a company called Sungard as it offered the best deal and there was a potential for growth. I have to say, their interview process was the hardest I’ve been through so far as well. It was a 3.5 hour interview with 3 groups of pair interviewers. What I was told is that should you fail any part of the interview process, it would immediately stop and you’d be asked to leave. The first round of interviewers had to be the toughest as it was the technical questions. Every single technology I had listed on my CV had been scrutinized, questioned and probed. Once that part was done, I was relieved that I had passed and was to continue on. The subsequent interviews were a lot easier as it relied on my ability to bullshit through my nose which I’ve always been able to excel at .

One of the biggest reasons of joining this company was because of the view!!! It overlooks River Thames and the old City of London. From what I gather, there two business districts in London. City of London and Canary Wharf where the former is in the heart of the city surrounded by historic buildings while I’m in the latter where the buildings are all new and modern.

A big perk of this company is that on every floor it occupies, there are vending machines where the drinks are all free! FREEEE!!! Coke, sprite, fanta, flavored water, etc. Also on Fridays they have free breakfast which includes bacon, eggs, sausages and worst of all KRISPY KREME!!! I will be fat when I get back to Perth . So yea, enjoying this place quite a fair bit.

Oh, if anybody was curious of the topic of my previous post it was about going to a club called the Notting Hill Arts Club where a 65 year old dj was playing called DJ Derek. Guess I’ll talk about him later when I feel like it

Tags: london, new job, sungard, view