I went to Clifford Centre at Raffles Place today for my 'appointment' with Artivision. I realized that the company was on the 26th storey. I was wondering how fast/slow the lift was. It turned out that it only goes to the 20th storey & above, so it went pretty fast (it reached the 20th storey in 3 seconds!).
I found the company and went in. I was greeted by Mr. Chew himself, who was a fairly old person. He led me into a room and told me that the head programmer himself, Bernard would come speak to me.
Bernard was a very nice person. It turned out that he also graduated from NUS, only 6 months before me and he was 1 year older (an indication that he was an Honours student). At first, he looked through my 'resume' (a miserable profile about myself that I typed out) followed by the list of my modules taken.
He proceeded to talk about their job scope. They were hiring C+ programmers to do GUI for their programs, but he found nothing related on my modules list (strike one for me). He added that he wanted thinking programmers who could churn out a program that is highly optimal, cost-effective and uses as little system resources as possible (strike two for me). He asked me if I was one who constantly upgraded myself by reading up during all this time I did not work, to which I sheepishly replied 'no' (strike three, I'm out!).
Despite that, Bernard was a very helpful person. He started talking to me about other careers I could pursue, such as IT support or a technical writer (which is a good enough hint already that I am not wanted). I found the talk with him to be very insightful and enlightening. I thought that usually when you bombed from an interview, they would immediately show you the door. Instead, this guy was telling me of other alternatives that I could look into.
Anyway, when everything was said and done, I shook his hand, thanked him for his time and left.
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