Flashes of Panic

Every now and then my boss comes over to share a favorite bit from the applications for my job. I’m reluctant to share the details here, but I’m definitely assembling a small list of “what not to do” examples. Maybe generalities?

• Expect to be Googled. Or, more specifically, expect that we’ll check out the website at the domain your email address is on. If there’s anything there which you wouldn’t want to explain to your parents, the FBI, or the RIAA, you might consider not using that email address, rather than letting us speculate on your level of responsibility towards company servers.

• Listing programs or applications you have experience with is cool, but you don’t need to include every single one. Certainly there are jobs for which you’d need to claim experience with web browsers, for example, but we’d prefer to take the basics for granted and hear about your PHP experience, or how you write iptables rules for fun in your spare time. (Or, at least, that you’ve heard of iptables.) Don’t try to pad the list.

Now Playing: Hope from Up by R.E.M.