Jeff Galper

I ate Cinnamon Toast Crunch for breakfast today for the first time. That shit is good.

The last few weeks have been a whirlwind of activity that abruptly ended yesterday afternoon.

In November I was informed that Amazon would be conducting interviews with the CreateSpace interns graduating in June.  I gave HR my application and waited to be contacted about a phone interview.  Weeks passed and I eventually forgot about it – June was several months off and I wouldn’t be starting until then if I got a job.

In late December/early January the two most senior people on my team announced they’d be leaving.  One was moving to another team, the other leaving the company.  The silver lining of this news was the new positions opening up.  Since I’m still in college I was informed I didn’t qualify for the SDE position, but the support engineer on our team did.  It looked like our SE would become an SDE and I would become an SE.

After delays due to vacations and interviews the SE was offered the SDE position.  He accepted and the SE position opened up.  I put my application in and shortly after (2/17?), was offered the job.  Right around this time Amazon contacted me again about interviewing in Seattle.  I took them up on their offer and scheduled an interview for March 1st.  A few days before my Seattle trip, CreateSpace surprised me with an interview loop – for an SDE position.  I had several interviews on Wednesday (2/24) and an Amazon bar raiser interview on Friday.

I flew to Seattle the day before my Amazon interview and was picked up at the airport by my cousin Deborah and her son Cody.  Cody and I had a good time wrestling around the house while I was there.  My five hour long interview session went well and I had a good time in Seattle.

When I got back to Scotts Valley on Tuesday (3/2), the Amazon recruiter scheduled an interview with Lab126 in San Jose for that Friday.  Wednesday was mostly uneventful.  Thursday however, my SE offer was put to shame when I was offered an SDE position at CreateSpace.  I was ecstatic.

I went ahead with my Lab126 interview since I had made the commitment.  From my perspective the Lab126 interview loop was more difficult than the Amazon loop.  By this time I had pretty much decided to accept the CreateSpace offer, but was still hoping to hear back from Amazon and Lab126 first.

On Wednesday (3/10) CreateSpace revised the offer while Lab126 invited me back for another around of interviews.  A few hours later I accepted CreateSpace’s offer.  I’m now officially an SDE at CreateSpace.