[Nate]

As an update to my last post:

• In two days time I've got an interview for a company in Seattle that already rejected me for three different positions. This time they have sent a bunch of people down to Melbourne to interview people locally in-person and emailed me out of the blue asking if I was interested. Hopefully my wit and charm win them over.
• In two weeks I have an interview for a company in Amsterdam. Not just the company; the interview is there too. They're flying me up for a couple of days to decide if they like me and simultaneously to try and convince me that Amsterdam is really nice and I want to move there permanently.
• I had a phone interview two days ago that lasted all of ten minutes and the guy asked me two questions about myself. It was a little ridiculous. After that he sent me a coding exercise - which I think I did quite well in, although my history with previous coding exercises is evidence that I'm not a good judge of that - and I'll hear back about more interviews in a couple of days.
• Another company sent me their coding exercise the other day. It's really quite complicated and difficult and would require me to do a shitload of research to work out how to solve it. Not sure if I'm going to get the time to do it, and I suspect that the difficulty level (and the fact that the wage offered is far higher than any other job I've applied for) is a sign that I'm underqualified for it.
• I got an email this morning offering me a phone interview on Tuesday morning.

• The interview with the company in Seattle went reasonably. They said they'd get back to me by the end of last week. When I hadn't heard back by Saturday, I emailed them and got a reply telling me that bureaucracy was happening. Turns out they weren't meant to even offer me an interview within 12 months of a rejection without first checking with the lead interviewer who had rejected me. Now they're trying to get in touch with him to retroactively get permission to interview me. Which I'm hoping is a good sign, as I don't think they'd bother if they were going to reject me anyway.
• I leave for Amsterdam tomorrow!
• I got rejected from the coding exercise. I wrote my code with efficiency in mind, using types supported by the Python language that aren't in other languages. They wanted me to prove that I could write Object-Oriented code, even if it's less efficient in this mini problem.
• Haven't bothered touching that coding exercise. Too much effort and too much on and I don't think I'd get the job anyway.
• Had two interviews and a coding exercise with company #5. They seemed pretty happy with me and are planning another interview soon.