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Feb 12A Most Wonderful Opportunity, Multiple Frustrations, and More
by in Tales from the Interview on 2012-03-13A Most Wonderful Opportunity (from Ben)
I made the mistake of giving my real email address to a headhunter I met at a local dev event. So now I get emails like this...
Hi Benjamin, I am working with one of the best known media organisations in the world. They are truly successful, with over £2 billion of turnover each year. The company is without doubt one of the flashest and coolest places to work. The lead developer there is so skilled that he has been given numerous awards for just being outstanding. He is a true luminary in his field and is without doubt one of the key figures behind the company being one of the most profitable companies out there. Everybody can learn from him, he is essentially the Dali Lama of the iPhone coding world. You would be working alongside this guru in a small team of carefully selected developers, hand picked for their coding excellence and coolness. The project that you would be working on would be predominantly iPhone native language based, but there may also be an element of Ruby on Rails involved too. JSON experience is also desired. The guru has already built, single handedly an application which enables all of the companies' famous magazines to be converted from PDF format to the iPad with minimal extra work required for developers. The software enables HTML pages to be added to add bonus pages etc. This already extremely successful in the UK and is being rolled out across Poland and Kiev shortly. The company itself is one of the most fine places to work, minimalist Scandinavian style offices with awards mounted in plexigass and titanium frames upon the walls, a drink fountain serving the purest chilled spring water fresh from the Malvern Hills. One has not lived until meeting with this company, an environment in which they meticulously produce the finest quality of code, as pure as the water which emanates from the stainless steel spout of their drink dispenser. --- snip several paragraphs describing a tree in a nearby garden --- Do get in touch immediately if you are interested in this most wonderful opportunity. Sincerly, Jerome F-------