I’m in the midst of the second round of jobs. After a month of talking with recruiters and doing screening interviews, things are finally moving. My first interview with my former employer went well, so now both teams I interviewed with want me talking with more folks on their teams. After a few attempts to get my resume to the right place at Google, they’re now interested in interviewing me. At the third place, I finally got my screening interview with a second-line manager, and he wants to have me visit too.

Google was the annoying one. For all the talk about hiring for the long term, there’s still the problem that someone has to want to bring you in for interviews. In my case, the recruiters kept pointing me at teams that either didn’t have room to hire or that were looking for folks expert in things I wasn’t expert at. I finally got to a recruiter who heard my suggestions about relevant jobs and pushed my resume over to the right teams, and things went much better. Fingers crossed the interview goes well.

After the “You two are on fire!” comments at Santana Row during post-interview cocktails, I think we’ll be visiting Santana Row after every interview from now on. If we get there before 4pm, then Sino, the Chinese restaurant, is still serving dim sum. Nothing like pork buns and mojitos!