It’s been almost two weeks now since I started a new (day) job at Research in Motion (RIM), which makes the Blackberry mobile device. The office is located in Redwood City (well, Redwood Shores), California, and is strangely enough, just a few buildings over from my last job. I’m doing software development for Blackberry devices, so it’s a bit of a change from my work in front-end web development, and going well so far. It’s taking a while to get my application environment set up, but then again, I’m also documenting the process at the same time. RIM is actually a Canadian company, and I’ll be visiting offices next week in Mississauga and the headquarters in Waterloo, near Toronto, Ontario.
So I’ve become familiar with questions that tech companies ask when interviewing candidates for web developer positions in “Silicon Valley” in California. So if you’re interviewing, you should prep yourself for the following interview questions that always seem to come up:
- What JavaScript libraries have you used? (And for YUI, which seems to be popular, which components have you used?)
- What’s the difference between “if (a==x)” and “if (a===x)”?
- Have you developed CSS for different browsers and versions? What are some examples of issues you’ve had? (i.e. box model)
- How do you keep up on web technology? (books, blogs, etc.)
- Use this text editor to properly properly markup this form from memory (with XHTML, CSS, JavaScript).
- Use this text editor to properly properly markup this table from memory (with XHTML).
- What’s the difference between “visibility:hidden” and “display:none”?
- What’s the difference between using var inside and outside of a JavaScript function? (or an exercise involving this)
- How would you write the HTML and CSS for a standard three-column layout with header and footer?
Yes, Yodlee is still hiring here in Redwood City/Shores, California. And you or someone you know can be my boss! Yodlee is seeking a Director of Mobile and UI Engineering (UI Engineering is me). My groovy manager left the company a few weeks ago and we need a replacement. Anyone interested please use my name as a reference or contact me directly at “dlembree at NOSPAM yodlee dot NOSPAM com”.
I’ve listed some open job positions previously, but here are the top 3 5 jobs for which we are recruiting at my day job employer, Yodlee. We also need some Java/Web Programmers. The location is Redwood City, California (Silicon Valley). Anyone interested please use my name as a reference or contact me directly at “dlembree at NOSPAM yodlee dot NOSPAM com. View all open positions/details
- Director/Senior Director of Usability and Design
- Director, Client Advocacy
- Senior General Ledger Accountant
- User Interface Manager/Java Programmer (Added April 4)
- Marketing Consulting Director (Added April 7)
So at my day job at Yodlee, Inc., we’re hiring professionals for a variety of open job positions. If you or someone you know wants a good job at a solid company, please take a serious look. Basically, the company develops an online personal finance application, and it’s very cool to work in Silicon Valley, between San Francisco and San Jose (California, USA, of course). Anyone interested please use my name as a reference or contact me directly at “dlembree at NOSPAM yodlee dot NOSPAM com”.
The company I’m working for in California (Redwood City, Bay area) is looking for a web developer/coder with skills similar to mine: XHTML, CSS, DOM scripting, AJAX (preferably Hijax), and web accessibility. We’re getting a web application up to speed with web standards and web accessibility and there’s a lot of work! It may be contract to start, but I’m sure it pays well.
If you are skilled in the areas listed above, and you are interested, please send me a message at dlembree at g mail dot com. Serious inquiries only. You must have at least a few years experience.
So I’ve been in the Bay area (south of San Francisco, California, a.k.a. Silicon Valley) for almost two weeks now. It’s pretty awesome, and I’m discovering some interesting things about the difference between living here and in the midwest–some bad, some good.
- Motorcycles can legally ride between lanes/cars in California. Personally, I think this is pretty stupid.
- To rent a house in this area, move fast! Use Craig’s List. And be ready to get a cashier’s check. And it’s very expensive of course.
- Garbage/recycling pickup is treated as an extra utility, you pay monthly to the city. This is pretty silly; it should just be included with property taxes like other places.
- Wireless internet at Starbucks in Mountain View is free–because wireless internet is free in the whole city! Thanks to Google.
- The cost of living is obviously higher here than most American cities, but gasoline prices are relatively not too bad.
- The weather’s real nice as expected. Temperatures are not too hot in the day; pretty cool at night. But the sun is much stronger than I thought. I’ll have to get my car windows tinted, man.
- There’s no White Castle!
- Cruising along the coast is as fun and beautiful as I’d hoped. Santa Cruz is especially cool.
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