Funny stories, cool schwag, etc.

Wondered why Sony Ericsson was a no show yesterday? Monday they laid off 450 out of 750 RTP jobs, basically the entire R&D staff.

and then today I got back from the fair and realized that my fly was unzipped the whole time.

10/1/2008 11:31:15 AM

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"and then today I got back from the fair and realized that my fly was unzipped the whole time."

dontcha hate that

10/1/2008 11:58:23 AM

I hate it when people ask a question and then post the response to their own question.

10/1/2008 12:19:54 PM

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"Wondered why Sony Ericsson was a no show yesterday? Monday they laid off 450 out of 750 RTP jobs, basically the entire R&D staff."

probably a no show because they laid off 450 of 750 jobs

unlucky on your fly

10/1/2008 12:21:53 PM

They should really try to sort out more parking solutions for the event. Even getting there early doesn't help much.

10/1/2008 12:43:25 PM

do they not still do shuttles from various off campus parking areas?

10/1/2008 12:45:24 PM

they do

but if you're not a student anymore, parking on campus isn't really an option

unless you do park & ride, I guess

10/1/2008 12:47:35 PM

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"parking on campus isn't really an option"

which is why you could take a shuttle from "various off campus parking areas"

[Edited on October 1, 2008 at 12:50 PM. Reason : d]

10/1/2008 12:50:18 PM

I thought you said "on"

the bus going to the McKimmon center was only stopping at Talley and EBII

so that'd mean two buses to get there, unless you parked somewhere on the Varsity line

[Edited on October 1, 2008 at 12:58 PM. Reason : but oh well]

10/1/2008 12:51:31 PM

summary of the career fair: go to our website and apply. here's some free shit.

10/1/2008 1:24:21 PM

^thats only for people who dont stand out

for people we are actually interested in we will set up interviews right away.

10/1/2008 1:26:55 PM

Anyone have a link to the official website and stuff?

10/1/2008 1:29:45 PM

so... anyone work at cisco?

10/1/2008 2:36:06 PM

anyone see me? i was at the front printing people name tags

10/1/2008 5:17:50 PM

no sorry

10/1/2008 5:22:12 PM

I did work at Cisco. What do you want to know? Just got off of Coop there.

While a lot do go the website route, often a lot will do onsite interviews. Cisco is big on this I know. Several others I know will as well.

[Edited on October 1, 2008 at 5:27 PM. Reason : more info]

10/1/2008 5:27:09 PM

I have a couple interviews with cisco tomorrow. I'm just wondering... is everything they do around here support?

10/1/2008 5:30:04 PM

^no.

I start working there in a week and a half, and I won't be doing support.

10/1/2008 5:45:18 PM

well, the two guys I talked to today are from my understanding. one is in TAC. I have interviews in that and some other rotational program, but was wondering what else I could get into.

so what are you going to be doing?

[Edited on October 1, 2008 at 5:55 PM. Reason : ...]

10/1/2008 5:55:14 PM

Man I had fun...

I Bee Lined to the companies I wanted to talk to and got interviews as soon as the doors opened, I have 6 interviews lined up from this career fair directly, 3 of which I'm actually really interested in (the other 3 are backup jobs I wouldn't mind doing).

THEN I got a TON of candy and talked with a bunch of nice people while getting free stuff... occasionally they would demand a resume so in anticipation of this I took the resume's that got printed while I was hammering out the formatting and I would give those to them... some of which had words cut off...

I had a lot of fun talking to all of the civil engineering firms b/c they had the best candy usually...

I also learned a lot about other area's of the country that I might look into living (Austin tx, and Washington state) from striking up conversations with these recruiters...

Most useful give away I think was the Army Corp of Engineer's Backpack desk-2-go: with tape, a stapler WITH extra staples and highlighter that came in a hard plastic case so it doesn't get crushed in your backpack AWESOME.

Caterpillar had mini Cat toys that were really cool too... Not as many of the awesome 0.5mm pencils this time around though...

10/1/2008 6:58:00 PM

was kind of fun to work it on the recruiting side but im glad its over

10/1/2008 7:07:58 PM