Today was my first day at my new job, and it looks very promising. The company has some great ideas and there are many interesting projects coming up. The environment is refreshingly different from my last two companies, partially due to the entirely different space (mobile entertainment and applications), as well as the fact that I am not working on a shrink-wrap product per-se, but on the server-side infrastructure for mobile applications....
After a good 5 weeks of interviewing, I finally accepted a job offer. Towards the end, there were three jobs I was very interested in, and for some reason all three job offers came in yesterday. It’s funny how these things work out sometimes… I don’t usually write anything specific about my company on my blog, and I’ll keep it that way for now. I will however say that my new job is at an early phase startup in the mobile entertainment industry....
Please excuse the recent lack of updates on my blog. This has several reasons: I am currently seeking a new job, which takes a fair amount of time. (On that note, if you know of a challenging opportunity as a Lead Software Engineer or Software Engineering Manager, please leave a comment). As I mentioned in my previous post, I bought an Xbox… I spent the first few weeks playing with a few mods (upgrading the harddrive, etc....
My company just instigated a complete ban on instant messaging clients, supposedly for security reasons. While I agree that instant messaging applications may not be the most secure and probably should not be used internally for sensitive information (for which an internal instant messaging deployment of some sort would be preferable), I feel that instant messaging has become such a commodity for personal communications that removing this privilege is a highly significant and intolerable restriction....