Scary stuff

[selenay]

So tomorrow I am traipsing into London, forgoing a day's pay, to take a technical test and hope that I do well enough to merit an interview a few days later. It's Java and, after an afternoon going over old text books and applications that I've written, I feel fairly confident about my J2SE knowledge. I have no idea what format the test will be in, though. If it's like the multiple-choice C++ test that I unexpetedly aced this afternoon (after not touching the language for over a year), then I should get through the J2SE section without too much sweating and may be able to bluff my way through the J2EE stuff to get a reasonable score. It would be particularly handy because they know that I haven't used J2EE before.

If it's a "here's a pen, here's a piece of paper, regurgitate what you know" deal then I may be sunk. Hmmm.

I'll be interested to see what the company's offices are like tomorrow - whether I get the good vibe or the 'get me out of here' vibe. The work that I'd be doing sounds really interesting and at least they won't be questioning my technical competance if they do pull me in for interview. So I'm hopeful about this one. Just gotta find the company offices...

No word back on the bad interview. Um.

I've been completely buried in PHP/MySQL and am starting to get a feel for how I can implement the reviews database. It's all very exciting and absorbing. The wonderful terrylbirch is asking me questions about Under Green Hills that are very useful and we may need another geography session soon. Of course, first I need to get Jak and Denil to stop with the angsting and start with the plotty stuff. Getting the feeling that the first editing stage may involve much cutting and growling at unco-operative characters.

Comments

[gmul.livejournal.com]

Good luck! Whereabouts roughly are they based?

[selenay]

Somewhere in Hammersmith. Eep! According to the TfL website, the Hammersmith and City line and the District should both be running normal services tomorrow, so the trip shouldn't be too horrendous. Not counting on it - must have at least three different routes marked out 'just in case'. Not that I'm paranoid or anything...

[gmul.livejournal.com]

Paranoia good, just at the moment. The District Line had only been running a reduced service for the last few days and can be patchy at the best of times, or it always seems like it when I try and use it anyway. Hope no complications arise anyway!