I’m a member of the site LinkedIn, which is much like Facebook for business. I have a number of former colleagues on there, and occasionally get messages from recruiters looking for talent. Back in February, one such situation came up, where a recruiter said their security company was looking to open a center in Utah, and they noticed my experience at Symantec and wanted me to interview at the company.
As I never turn down chances to interview, I agreed and spoke to them over the phone. I must have impressed them, as they wanted to set up multiple interviews with me and different people within the company. However, these were all over the phone, as they were all out of Utah. After two phone interviews with different techs in the company, they asked if I’d be able to come in for an interview when they were in Utah. The dates didn’t work out, since we were in California at the time, so we did another phone interview with the vice president over the support group.
They ended up offering me a job, right at the time I started at Venafi. The timing on it couldn’t be worse, I felt, as I had just started at Venafi and I had no reason to leave. Even though the position paid more, I felt I reached a point where I didn’t need the extra money, so I mentioned it to my Venafi vice president, who tried to help me see evenly what the difference was between going and staying. I ultimately decided there was no reason to leave yet, so I turned it down. The vice president told me I was the first person to turn them down, and offered to bump up the offer even more, but in the end, I decided to stick it out at Venafi.