Are you interested in working at the den of the enemy?
Wednesday, 28. November 2007, 20:32:00
Here is what I found in my inbox today. That's right, I've got e-mails from HR departments of Yahoo! a Microsoft within less than half a day.
The one from Yahoo! was very short: they were just asking if I'm theoretically interested in working at their office in California, and for some reason asked me to send them my CV in Word format. Heh, good start: requiring me to use an expensive proprietary product which isn't even made for my OS, already during negotiation. Microsoft sent me a looong letter with a badly formatted plaintext version describing in a hardcore PR language how great it is to work in their Canada office, with a link to a video clip about it that only works on Windows or Mac. The message was essentially the same: whether I'm in principle interested in working for the villains.
It's time for me to get myself a piece of stationery like this for pinning down offers from companies I hate. I'm currently missing letters from Apple and Adobe for a complete collection.
Nevertheless, my attitude towards the giants who impede the industry doesn't preclude me from flying for interviews to the aforementioned countries for their expense and getting my tourist fun out of it. If it's not too hard to get the visas, that's what I'm going to do.
Some of my colleagues think that I should use offers from other companies to get a better salary at my current job, but here's the catch: if you're going to use a job offer in salary negotiations, you've got to be ready to pack up and leave. But the truth is, I'd never work for Yahoo! or, even worse, Microsoft. And even some other company, at least at this time, would have a hard time convincing me to leave the city I'm in love with.
I will only leave Opera Software when I realize that there is a job that I'd rather be doing than this one. And a boilerplate e-mail from some HR department will hardly be a reason for that.
По-русски: Интересует ли Вас работа в логове врага?
The one from Yahoo! was very short: they were just asking if I'm theoretically interested in working at their office in California, and for some reason asked me to send them my CV in Word format. Heh, good start: requiring me to use an expensive proprietary product which isn't even made for my OS, already during negotiation. Microsoft sent me a looong letter with a badly formatted plaintext version describing in a hardcore PR language how great it is to work in their Canada office, with a link to a video clip about it that only works on Windows or Mac. The message was essentially the same: whether I'm in principle interested in working for the villains.
It's time for me to get myself a piece of stationery like this for pinning down offers from companies I hate. I'm currently missing letters from Apple and Adobe for a complete collection.Nevertheless, my attitude towards the giants who impede the industry doesn't preclude me from flying for interviews to the aforementioned countries for their expense and getting my tourist fun out of it. If it's not too hard to get the visas, that's what I'm going to do.
Some of my colleagues think that I should use offers from other companies to get a better salary at my current job, but here's the catch: if you're going to use a job offer in salary negotiations, you've got to be ready to pack up and leave. But the truth is, I'd never work for Yahoo! or, even worse, Microsoft. And even some other company, at least at this time, would have a hard time convincing me to leave the city I'm in love with.
I will only leave Opera Software when I realize that there is a job that I'd rather be doing than this one. And a boilerplate e-mail from some HR department will hardly be a reason for that.
По-русски: Интересует ли Вас работа в логове врага?
