Last week I got an offer from Lockheed Martin. I found it hard to believe I was offered a job considering I didn’t walk away with a very good feeling following the interview. The position will be along the DC beltway in Maryland, close to the University of Maryland. That means it won’t be too difficult to find someone who is subleasing their apartment for the summer. It will be government contract work of some kind, but probably not for the military. It sounds like it could be a good experience working with a large number of people on a particular project, which was unlike my previous internship, where I worked with three or four people at most.
Of course, the NASA Ames telephone interview wasn’t scheduled until today, so I had to get the deadline extended for my acceptance at Lockheed. The interview today went more like what I had expected in the first place — more detailed job descriptions and more questions about specific things that I knew. The guy I talked to listed off a few potential projects I could work on, some of which had to do with Eclipse plugins, which sounded interesting. Eclipse, he said, was one of the reasons I was interviewed, since I listed my experience with it on my resume. I’ve done development with Eclipse, but never created a plugin for it. I talked a lot about what I had done in school and for work, much more than at Lockheed. He also asked a few questions about stuff I hadn’t had any experience with, which might not be a good sign, but he didn’t seem too worried. Overall, I think the interview went over well, but it’s hard to say what will happen. I feel I gave a much better impression of myself than I did the last time.
Hopefully I will find out next week about NASA so that I can make a decision about what I want to do. It sounded like there may be a follow up interview to test my technical knowledge, specifically with Java. It seems like I could get grilled if that happens.
I’m also dealing with finding housing for next year. At present, I just slapped down my room deposit for graduate housing so I have that as a sure bet. I would rather room with someone I know well, which pretty much equates to my teammates. Some of them found a house not too far from the graduate complex but it seemed too expensive and too many little surprises (unfurnished, not enough bedrooms) to be worth it. Maybe someone else will be willing to get an apartment. Though if I do that, I will most likely be paying rent on two places over the summer, so hopefully I can find someone else to sublease to.
School has started to pick up a little and I’ve got a fair share of assignments. Before long, there will be a whole torrent of stuff to do. This is one reason why I’m glad all these interviews are going on now and not later.
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