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I was messaged on LinkedIn by a recruiter while I was in the UK for my honeymoon. When we got back home to Colorado I called him back and everything went well enough that a tech screen call was set up between four or five guys on the team, and me.

I was expecting to be grilled about various Linux, networking, video transcoding, database, and transaction handling questions and problems, as that was the bulk of the job's description. But instead they just gushed that they'd used software I'd written at previous jobs and loved it.

It was very friendly and they never challenged me (not being arrogant here-- they literally never tested me) and we wound up just talking about, "the job," and about how the work sucked without the tools and apps I'd written.

I got an offer for $30k more than what I asked, the next day.

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  • 25
    I was expecting a follow-up message with something like "and then I won the lottery and my wife is Angelina Jolie and Elon Musk came to my house asking me if I wanted a free seat for a mission to Mars"
  • 6
    @Pizza That's part 2 of the story
  • 2
    That's awesome! Well done!
  • 1
    Very cool!
  • 0
    @Bitwise

    Agreed, though these weren't side projects. They were tools I wrote at previous jobs because the tools we were given at those jobs were terrible. The people interviewing me just happened to work at those same places after me. Incredible coincidence.
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