Job-type-thing update:

[azurelunatic]

Meeting was a pre-screening event, essentially. There were maybe 20-25 of us. The majority were 20-30 and male. Of the approximately 8 women in attendance, 4 were wearing sensible shoes and 4 were not. One fellow was wearing a basketball jersey.

Once we had all collected and filled out the informational sheets on us, we got seated in a training room of some sort and heard all about the company. People asked questions. We were a fairly quiet class to start with. After a while, we got a screening test, one of those fun standardized ones. This had some forms of questions I'd never encountered before, including "the word I am describing, guess the letter that starts it" and "this word, this list of words here contains either a synonym or an antonym for it, and good luck finding it" along with some more standard multiple-choice questions. I did decently. Not stellar, but decently.

It seems that when I'm On, I can socialize very well with fellow geekboys.

Some of the class got weeded out based on the screening test. Among them was the fellow in the basketball jersey, who'd been pointed out as an example of too-casual for the dress code.

The remaining class got to sit around and get an intro to how things worked, while being pulled off one by one for individual scheduling of interviews. I have mine on Tuesday in the morning. I remembered my social skills and greeted the recruiter who'd called the household and talked to both of us, and identified myself as hcolleen's roommate.

They're hiring the fastest for the Tempe location, it being the newest. I took a gander at what was across the street from it, cracked up laughing, and have decided that all other things being equal, Tempe has a few ... perks. That, and hcolleen likes Tempe, and we've been contemplating a possible future move, and it would help to be closer to start out with.

Comments

[onyxrising.livejournal.com]

I've learned I appreciate jobs which require English tests.

[azurelunatic]

We're going to need mindreading capability in this job, I do believe.

[onyxrising.livejournal.com]

What kind of job is it?

[azurelunatic]

Tech support.

[onyxrising.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear.

[azurelunatic]

Inbound tech support calls, plus inbound sales, the rationale being that it sucks to get transferred between departments, and it's better to have people knowing what they're bloody well selling when it's something as specialized as domain/hosting stuffs.

[onyxrising.livejournal.com]

That might not be entirely bad.

[azurelunatic]

I'm ambivalent about the idea of sales quotas (though my friends who work there already say that they can be met merely by selling people what they called in to buy) but I'm excited about the idea of uncapped bonuses.

[onyxrising.livejournal.com]

Yeah. At one of the places I worked, you had to upsell someone at least twice a day. Fortunately, more than twice a day you'd have a circumstance come along where you could actually save someone money by getting them on one of the preferred packages, and there was an extra $1 in your paycheck every time you did. One guy got an extra $2k a month just in selling those little packages, IIRC.

[azurelunatic]

It looks like every time we're going to have to ask the hosting/domain equivalent of "and would you like fries with that", which doesn't really bother me.

[hcolleen.livejournal.com]

So, I can turn in my two week notice next Friday, then :D

I told her during the interview that I didn't work well if I thought about commission and bonuses and things like that. They're there, yes, but I can't focus on them or it stresses me out. I will do my job and offer things to people, but that will not be my main focus. She still offered me the job :D

Anyways. YAY. (and good on introducing yourself because I told her I needed to wait for you) And, yes, to me, Tempe=<3

[gameboyguy13.livejournal.com]

Tempe=<3
From what I've seen of it, I agree.

[azurelunatic]

We should show you more of it.

[azurelunatic]

OK, so we shall coordinate training around your notice! Whee!

*chuckling*

[samurai-ko.livejournal.com]

I'd forgotten that about the Tempe location (when I first saw it - and I was in the car with John, RC, and two other male friends - I was like, "Oh, so NOW I know why the guys like working here").

The intelligence test thing was great fun when I had to take it, just zoomed through the thing. It's more to see how quickly you can think and problem-solve.

Good luck with your interview on Tues!

Michelle
aka
Samurai_ko

Re: *chuckling*

[azurelunatic]

It was fun. I zoomed through answering the ones I knew right off, and then went back to get the ones I didn't know at first. I didn't have to roll a will save against giggling half as much as I had to on the SATs, because there are fewer stupid answers.

Re: *chuckling*

[samurai-ko.livejournal.com]

At the risk of sounding totally arrogant, when they first sat me down with the test, the girl told me, "You won't have time to double-check your answers, so just do your best and try and get done."

I can only imagine the expression I had on my face when she said that, but managed to bite my tongue and just went to work. When she came back in eighteen minutes later for my 'two minute warning,' I just smiled, held up the finished test and said, "Done. And I even had time to double-check all of my answers."

The clang when her jaw hit the floor must have been audible on the other end of the call center.

I am SUCH a geek.

Michelle
aka
Samurai_ko

Re: *chuckling*

[azurelunatic]

I'm totally rusty. I don't quite think fast enough for that, alas.

[chailifesong.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear things went well, today. What company is this? I'm curious. I second the good luck for Tuesday!

[azurelunatic]

Same one samurai_ko works for. Remind me Wednesday and I'll tell you the name if you want. (I have a thing about not saying stuff like that in public online.)

[azurelunatic]

Fascinations is a sex toy shop.