Nicholas Pike

Yesterday was the RIT Spring Career fair, first one I have ever been to! Judging from the literature and guides that RIT throws at us weeks in advance, students are supposed to feel nervous about this event, but lucky for me moments before going to the career fair I got an interview with RightNow Technologies. (Thanks Dan)

Dan had passed around my resume to a coworker or two, and it actually paid off. I also attended their booth at the career fair to get some face time in - so maybe I could get more then one interview offer?

While walking around I saw Jason standing in line for a company called BlueTie, naturally I had no clue who they were, and their HR lady kindly filled me in. After she finished I got in line to talk to their on scene developer, who almost immediately offered my an interview after glancing at my resume. Awesome! Now I just have to wait for them to contact me to setup an interview.

Small World?

Nick Muerdter, a previous coworker at the CCL currently coops for BlueTie.

The Pain of GPA Rejection

I actually got shutdown straight up by the HR lady from Harris (defense contractor) for having a sub-3.0 GPA.

Thats fine, if GPA is that important to you that you can skip my entire resume, then its your loss and I don’t want to work for you anyway.

Microsoft Happy Hour (w/o Alcohol)

Microsoft held another recruiting/PR event at RIT today: free food, give aways - of course I went!

Long story short, I won a raffle ( a copy of Fable ) , and when calling out my name the recruiter, Ginny , yelled out “Oh I know him!”. Awesome.

I talked with her briefly after the event, and the break down is this: I was too late, and not awesome. I think if I had applied slightly earlier I would be currently in Redmond, or if I had been a C++ genius. Either way, she made it rather clear that Microsoft is interested, and that I likely wont be sent a reject letter - but will be kept waiting in the wind for a second interview.

I walked away with:

• A full stomach (yay for free pizza and soda)
• A fresh copy of Fable for Windows
• A green microsoft t-shirt (medium)
• A pink microsoft t-shirt (medium)

Here’s some pics:

(NVidia booth at Career Fair)

(Line to talk to Ginny, the RIT Microsoft Recruiter)

(With the flow of pizza cut off, the room empties out rather fast)