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progMy gut feeling seems to have been spot-on. One of my job references wrote to tell me that he spoke with the ICS people today. By extension, we can deduce that HMS never bothered to contact my references.
Here is a letter that I just wrote to my pal Andy (another reference):
Did people from Harvard call you today as a job reference? They seem to have hit my ORA contacts.
This is not the job at HMS that I was anticipating. It's a programming team that supports various initiatives to put university library and course materials on-line. I had my second interview with them today, which was also my first face-to-face interview. They were drooling all over me (everything they do is with LAMP(erl), XML, and web services), and are sending me nudge-wink "I expect you'll hear from us next week" email now, so it looks like I have it bagged.
Amusingly, they remind me very much of MINT engineering when I first joined. Their building is even a house that's been recast as office space, just like the Winslow place. Unlike MINT, they're funded by grants, and there are no insane relatives afoot. So, the job doesn't have the prestige of helping cancer researchers, but it has a lot of other stuff.
____ @ HMS stressed, during my Tuesday interview with that crowd, that "no matter which way this goes" his lab will be expanding a lot over the next year and he'll need more hackers. He said this a lot after he spoke with the existing DBA, whom I think I failed to impress. (It was a weird interview -- I spoke privately with four individuals, instead of with with a group. The DBA started quizzing me about my Oracle table optimization knowlegde. Enh.) Meanwhile, this position at ICS is "term", meaning that it's expected to last only a year or two. So, maybe I have a future at HMS anyway.
Here is a letter that I just wrote to my pal Andy (another reference):
Did people from Harvard call you today as a job reference? They seem to have hit my ORA contacts.
This is not the job at HMS that I was anticipating. It's a programming team that supports various initiatives to put university library and course materials on-line. I had my second interview with them today, which was also my first face-to-face interview. They were drooling all over me (everything they do is with LAMP(erl), XML, and web services), and are sending me nudge-wink "I expect you'll hear from us next week" email now, so it looks like I have it bagged.
Amusingly, they remind me very much of MINT engineering when I first joined. Their building is even a house that's been recast as office space, just like the Winslow place. Unlike MINT, they're funded by grants, and there are no insane relatives afoot. So, the job doesn't have the prestige of helping cancer researchers, but it has a lot of other stuff.
____ @ HMS stressed, during my Tuesday interview with that crowd, that "no matter which way this goes" his lab will be expanding a lot over the next year and he'll need more hackers. He said this a lot after he spoke with the existing DBA, whom I think I failed to impress. (It was a weird interview -- I spoke privately with four individuals, instead of with with a group. The DBA started quizzing me about my Oracle table optimization knowlegde. Enh.) Meanwhile, this position at ICS is "term", meaning that it's expected to last only a year or two. So, maybe I have a future at HMS anyway.