Finally an offer!
It seems like these last two semester's have gone by extremely fast for us. What with job applications flying all around, interviews here and there, and my regular school and work schedules, I barely have time to think anymore. After going to interview with Microsoft in Seattle, and spending a few days there at their expense, they decided they didn't want me and I moved on. I then interviewed with Amazon.com and more recently with IBM. While I was getting the interviews I wanted (I must have done something right on my resume), I was beginning to think that I would be sticking around in Utah for the summer. Well, last week Amazon.com contacted me to offer me an internship over the summer in Seattle. YEA!!!! I still may hear something from IBM, but I think we are pretty much set on Amazon at this point. Part of that comes from the fact that we (Mako and I), both wanted to live in Seattle for a while, and the rest probably comes from the incredible amount of money they are offering me. I'm bound legally to not say how much, but as an hourly rate it's well over twice what I make now.
Needless to say we are extremely excited for the opportunity, especially Mako who is dying to get closer to the sea and away from all this dry air. I still have another year till I graduate, but if they offer me a full time position after graduation we are thinking we might try out Seattle for a couple of years. Now I can finally relax and enjoy the rest of the school year without worrying about where we are going to be in the summer or finding a good job opportunity.
2 comments:
Congratulations on your job offer! I will have an on-site interview with Amazon very soon, so would you like to share some of your interview experience? You must have put on great performance to receive an offer from such a good company.
All the best,
James
jameslihb at hotmail.com
Hi there, thanks for the comment. I don't know that I put on that great a performance. I did have quite a bit of relevant experience so that I was able to keep up when the interviewer started going into things that Amazon.com is actually doing. It was nothing like the Microsoft interview where most everything was abstract and didn't have much leeway for mistakes.
Actually, I completely fudged the last part of my Amazon.com interview, but if you really know what you have put down on your resume and have a passion for what you want to do, you should be fine.
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