Interview in Lenta.ru

       The other day, a friend threw me a link in ICQ on a job for the company Lenta.ru, which roughly overlapped with my activities. Not that I wanted to change jobs, but I took my interest - I sent my response there.



    They called back the next day.

       They invited me for an interview - once again I looked at all the details of the vacancy (It-news), I decided to go.

       The office of the company is located on st.m. Avtozavodskaya in the Omega Plaza business center has a glass roof, decorative cows, very beautiful in general.



       Lenta.ruis a division of Rambler. Inside a large room there are a lot of people sitting at computers opposite each other and constantly writing and discussing something. The team consists mainly of guys, everything is noticeably older than me) but overall the atmosphere is very friendly.

       After a short conversation with one of the employees, I was asked to complete a test task - to find 5 interesting news on the IT topic on the Internet that would not be older than 24 hours on the original source. After that, they needed to come up with the appropriate headlines and on the finish line - write one of the posts under the "Ribbons" format. This is how simple it is)

       First, I looked at what was already on the tape to exclude unnecessary. Then he ran through the Habr, crunch, Yandex, RIA-news and other ITAR-tass. There were not so many really interesting ones, and almost all of them were rewrites from foreign countries and retelling of some reports. But, having fiddled with half an hour, I found something - the list was eight items. Later I was asked to write a couple of paragraphs about Google Buzz. Since the service just started, and there was no password from my Gmail mailbox (there wouldn’t be any sense from the created mailbox), I made a post by digging it up in the internet at a pace.



       “ Here, a link to user statistics is missing, in my opinion 176 million on gmail was back in December ,” “ they forgot a comma ,” “a little incorrect comparison with twitter and facebook ”- in general, I actually could not cope with the task, my post was not quite in the format of the tape. Well, goodbye and I went. By the way, they said that they always read the Habr)

       Actually, which of all this did I draw conclusions? Perhaps the main thing for me - I realized that I could not work in such a rhythm and in such an environment. And it’s boring for me to rewrite other people's news (So, I’ll probably continue to do what gives me - at the rhythm in which it’s convenient, even at home. “Keeping abreast of all events” does not block my pleasure from a hobby.



       The second - I always thought that I was reading the news) It turned out that I did not even read the thousandth of what they write. In fact, working as a “vegetable” with all kinds of pieces of iron, I fly past everything that is going on around - recognizing only the most significant and key events, and with a fairly large delay.
       Third, that with the news, at least in the IT sector, the situation on Russian projects is, roughly speaking, not very) Maybe I was looking badly and not there, but almost all the news was translated with a delay of a day or two - there is something to strive for , including on Habré;)

       For what I generally wrote this zh-shny post? I do not know. Most likely, I just wanted to share my experience / observations / failures. Although, if someone tries their hand and as a result gets a good job, it will be great - this is the vacancy. The work is not easy, but the conditions are more than anti-crisis) And all in an adult way!

    On the way back, I popped into player.ru and bought a mount for HD2 and charging in a car - the communicator got stuck in traffic. Once again, I was convinced that Chinese fasteners can not be taken, but charging seems to be working so far.

    If someone throws interesting links, I will be grateful.
    Good luck!

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