How does Rose feel about it? Details - we want details!
I met with the Correspondence Lady --- she's both the HR person and the Comptroller of the company --- and Systems Manager Guy. The interview lasted about 20-25 minutes.
The company is currenly located in the oldest "skyscraper" (12 floors, dates back to 1952) in Austin; it's smack in the middle of downtown. I worked there once, years ago, in the basement; Cool Company, however, is on the 4th floor. I walk in, and the decor is very cute-tech, with glass dividers and black computers and geeks coding away. Correspondence Lady meets me and brings me back to a comfy chair. There's a frosty bottle of Ozarka water sitting there; I assume it's someone else's.
I am introduced to System Manager Guy, who has unreadable yellow eyes --- creeped me out a bit. System Manager Guy and Correspondence Lady tag-team me for about six questions total, then System Manager Guy opts out of the dialogue and let Correspondence Lady ask me about four more questions.
They asked the common stuff --- what was your biggest success (story about a mess I wandered into on the phones a while back, shows how determined I can be and how I will hang with the customer 'till it's done), what would coworkers and managers say are your strengths and weaknesses, do you know PHP and MySQL, what do you want to be doing in 5 years, etc. They didn't ask for references, didn't ask for my résumé.
I made System Manager Guy talk to me when Correspondence Lady ran out of questions. I asked him exactly what the job entailed, and got about a 5 minute discourse from him. Now, he could be just a repressed computer guy --- he did smirk a lot when I talked about the boss that compelled me to get into support (he wouldn't talk to customers), and he nodded when I said the first thing you do when you troubleshoot is to simplify.
Correspondence Lady said they'd be interviewing through tomorrow, and would be making a decision in the next couple of weeks --- then she looked at System Manager Guy, laughed, and said, "Earlier, if System Manager Guy has his way."
After the interview, the Correspondence Lady let me know that the bottle of Ozarka was for me. Wish I'd known ... could have used the water when I was talking. Ah, well, it was a lovely parting gift.
I am trying not to obsess ...