Goodbye CareerJunction, Hello Synthasite

05 Nov 2007

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Last Wednesday was my last day at CareerJunction (well, this time around).  After some initial issues (mostly to do with culture), I'd started to settle in, I got my team a quiet environment, and my team was hitting milestones and generally impressing everyone.

So, why leave?

Well, I'd decided to stay on at CJ for a bit, while waiting to see if other options would pan out.  I'd put bits of my life on hold, since there's little point to finding a new flat or buying a new vacuum cleaner if you might be leaving the country in a few weeks.

Then, I got a phone call from Synthasite, saying that they'd like to have a chat with me.  So, I went past their offices, chatted to them for a bit, got really excited about what they had done and what they were planning on doing, realised that they were wanting me to work there, told them that I might not be around long since I was waiting on those options, and they said they'd take the risk.  Which either meant they were truly confident of their ability to convince me to stay, or didn't think I was good enough to have the other stuff come through.  But I gave them the benefit of the doubt.  And then I took the weekend to think about it, and decided to give it a go.

Fast forward a month: Day 3 of new employment being the launch of the Synthasite beta (more from boss-man Vinny Lingham in his announcement), and much watching of Munin graphs to see how well we're handling the load.

3 Responses

  1. jonathan — November 05, 2007 at 07:09 PM.

    Make the Firefox (and only the firefox) icon clickable on the synthasite website. I'll give you karma for it?

    OK fine. Hope you'll be happy there.

    I'll also settle for the Firefox AND Flock icons, but that's my best offer ;)

  2. Charl van Niekerk — November 06, 2007 at 05:39 PM.

    Man that is fantastic news! Congratulations, hope you really enjoy it there! They are certainly doing extremely challenging and interesting work!

  3. Jacques Marneweck — November 07, 2007 at 06:28 PM.

    Yeah so you're back to PHP now :)

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