You never know where interesting things are going to come from. I wasn’t expecting much from this morning’s interview: a small regional company looking to add some developers for a seemingly unexciting project. But their own HR people had found my resume without an agency, and setup an in-person interview without the usual phone screen. So at least they seemed interested in me.
The HR woman was nice, and I got the impression the company was in good shape, growing, and had some good opportunities in IT. Again, I got the benefits [Sales Pitch]. The IT director (of a 15-person department :)), filled in some more of the picture: a rewrite of their core app as a software as a service offering using an innovated, patented new architecture. It ran a little long, and after a week of interviews, I was really ready to bail.
Then he brought in The Professor. This guy fit the bill in every sense, and once he started talking about highly-abstracted code-generation framework he had architected after decades of research, I was blown away! He was also the only person to ask me what kind of computers and code I had at home and what I really wanted to do, and it turns out he’s a pretty serious landscape photographer, too. It was by far the most fascinating chat I’ve had with anyone in this whole process.
It seemed like things had gone well, but I was again blown away when they called me that afternoon and made an offer! It seems like everyone I’ve been talking to has been moving fast; these guys are like greased lightning. Either that, or I am just way more of a rock star than I previously realized 
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