Jobster: Answers by Matt Terich http://www.jobster.com/at/person/show/445511?hbxcmp=feed&hbxsrc=rss_user_answers Jobster.com http://www.jobster.com/at/assets/images/jobster/logos/rss_logo.gif http://www.jobster.com/at/person/show/445511?hbxcmp=feed&hbxsrc=rss_user_answers Thu, 17 May 2007 23:29:25 GMT Most recently updated answers by Matt Terich Matt, What do you miss most about speakeasy? http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/132765?answer_class=AnswerBase The awesome team of people I worked with. Thu, 17 May 2007 23:29:25 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/132765?answer_class=AnswerBase Matt, How would you describe what you did at speakeasy? http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/132476?answer_class=AnswerBase With a small team of developers, designed and built Speakeasy's OSS for customer support, billing, reporting and Internet service provisioning. Thu, 17 May 2007 17:35:13 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/132476?answer_class=AnswerBase Matt, What advice do you have for someone looking for their first job out of college? http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/199521?answer_class=AnswerBase You've got some time before you really need to figure out what you want to do. Try something fun at first. Thu, 17 May 2007 21:45:46 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/199521?answer_class=AnswerBase Matt, What was the last really difficult interview question you were asked? How did you respond? http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/198093?answer_class=AnswerBase Someone asked me if I would "raise the bar", and that they only hire people who are smarter than their average current employees. I told them I thought it was kind of a lame question, since I don't know how smart their current employees are, but that I was confident in my skills. Wed, 09 May 2007 19:30:30 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/198093?answer_class=AnswerBase Matt, If you could choose, what city would you most like to live/work in? Why? http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/198092?answer_class=AnswerBase I love Seattle, so I'm probably already in a good city, but I think one day I might go back to Boston. I miss Boston sometimes. Wed, 09 May 2007 19:28:47 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/198092?answer_class=AnswerBase Matt, What was one of the biggest lessons you ever learned from being laid off? http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/191780?answer_class=AnswerBase That its not personal, and usually its not a bad thing. Getting laid off at whitepages was a great experience for me, I managed to have a really interesting experience in between jobs, and it helped me find my current position, which I like much better. Tue, 01 May 2007 22:32:31 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/191780?answer_class=AnswerBase Matt, What path did you take to your current career? http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/191779?answer_class=AnswerBase It was accidental. I graduated from music school and started temping. I ended up running a Mac network for a small pharmaceutical company and just gained experience from there, learning Perl first for systems administration, then taking a leap into application development. Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:16:44 GMT http://www.jobster.com/at/answer/view/191779?answer_class=AnswerBase