Today we had the first face-to-face interview with the new students. The interview is split into three sections. The first is conducted by Paul Humphreys and David Cole. It lasts for about 45 - 60 minutes and focuses on questions relating more to the students past technical experience.

After this one of the current students (this time me) takes the interviewee for a tour of the labs. This lasted about 30 - 40 minutes and is a great opportunity for the student being interviewed to ask questions and get a (if brief) overview of what the job really involves. The student is shown the production cage, the overflow lab and then the main lab.

When the tour is completed the interviewee returns to the office for another chat with Paul and David - this time regarding the Sun Ray technology (as is requested that they research when they are invited for a face-to-face interview) and also a few networking questions etc.

I have to admit that I spent a lot of the time during the tour trying to remember what my interview and tour was like. I was hoping to remember some of the cool things that I really liked so that I could show this guy (who also happened to be called Daivd) the stuff that really made me go ‘wow’. In the end I got the feeling that he really liked the high-end servers - specifically the 25K and the M9000+.

All in all it was quite a different experience being the interviewer as opposed to the interviewee!

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