I had one phone screen with a hiring manager, which was followed up by on-site interviews that took most of the day.

Interviews were mixed, but over the course of the day, it became clear that different people had different expectations for the role. Some people clearly wanted a .NET developer to work on some very specific tasks, and others wanted an experienced developer who knew how to architect and scale applications deployed to the cloud. My skills are definitely the latter, and not the former, so the end result was predictable.

This was the Seattle office, which is a smaller and perhaps less experienced group than the one in Portland. I also happened to have interviewed with the Portland office some time ago and found them to have a much more disciplined approach to hiring, with better focus on what they were looking for and better testing of skills.

Which just goes to show that you not only need to find a great company, which I believe New Relic to be, but also find the right team within that company.

If you were a character in a movie or book, who would it be? And please don't say Captain Kirk, because lots of people say that.