Tuesday, May 22, 2007

SITA it is

After a few weeks of interviewing, I chose to join SITA . I started last Wednesday and been busy getting introduced to lots of people. My team is really cool and I work with very smart people. I know I am gonna learn a ton from this group of engineers.
So the interview process started out with me being pretty nervous. This was the first time that I was officially interviewing with employers. I mean I know my stuff, but I don't really know how to sell my skills and sounding smart all the time :) But man, this was such fun. I didn't dread it one bit ( except for the driving ) after I started meeting the people, and seeing how exciting it is to talk about different technologies in different settings solving different problems. I got in touch with lots of cool companies, cool smart dudes who gave me a chance to present myself even though my "number of years of work experience" was less than theirs. I am glad that I gave myself plenty of time to look for a job that suits me.
At SITA, 4-5 people interviewed, all the way from my team members to the resident Java Guru to the Director of Software Products. I really like how in a megacorp, I am a somebody. Coming from Choices where I had the power of God to do anything, I wanted a job which gave me good amount of responsibility but also protected me from all the political BS. I also wanted to be in a place where I meant something, and where my views/opinions/thoughts matter. At SITA, I really feel that even the higher ups ( HCE : Highly Compensated Employee ) care about the developers and we aren't just code monkeys. I like that about SITA which is a mega corp but not really!
I am excited about working here ( other than traveling to the office ) and I hope this place keeps me motivated.