Jules’ front end development recognized by Yahoo!
I received an interesting contact form submission one evening, by a Yahoo! talent scout.
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:53:26 -0600 Subject: Form Submission To: jules@webveteran.com From: <XXXXX@yahoo-inc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”iso-8859-1″ Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit —————————————————— Name: Teddi XXXXXXXX Email: XXXXX@yahoo-inc.com Phone: (408)XXX-XXXX Company: Yahoo Website: www.yahoo.com City: Sunnyvale State: CA Question: Hi Jules, My name is Teddi XXXXXXXX and I’m a Talent Scout with Yahoo. I would like to discuss Front End Engineering roles we have with Yahoo. When might be a good time to speak? Thanks, Teddi
So… that was nice!
Later that night I spoke with Teddi on the phone. Being very good at her job, she knew right away that my resume was formatted from a Monster.com template. And then she gave me advice about resume writing.
I showed her some of my front end work, both of my own site and live examples of sites I’ve coded. She was very impressed.
I showed her that a search in Yahoo! for “freelance web development” shows me as the first result. And I’m number two for “freelance web developer”. I was surprised she didn’t know that. She asked “how did you pull that off?!” The reply: “It’s my job”.
Now, the problem is, that their development team is in sunny California. And I’m in NY. Yahoo! has offices in NY, but they are marketing teams. I asked what are the odds of me doing the development work for Yahoo! in NY. The reply: “Zero.”
I don’t know where it will lead. But at least it was nice to be recognized.
Heads up on TrackBacks … they do you no good. Is there a way to delete them? Surely you can … and this comment too.
Someone the size of Yahoo requires that degree of centralization?! I’m shocked. No, appalled. Surely NY could easily support an agile xP crew.
That leaves me feeling rather dismal.