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So, today was my first day of work, although it wasn’t really “work”, it was an ori­en­ta­tion to get us started with every­thing. One of the first things we had to do was sign Non-Disclosure Agree­ments (sorry every­one, that means I won’t be dish­ing out any inside secrets!), and a bunch of other minor details, such as get­ting paid and such . The peo­ple there are pretty cool, and I ran into Cur­tis there, which was unex­pected. The major­ity of the co-ops there are from UBC and Water­loo, there was only about 3 SFU stu­dents out of 30 co-ops, which is sur­pris­ing since I thought SFU was a bet­ter CS school then UBC…

The cam­pus is one of the most amaz­ing build­ings I have ever been in. Foos­ball, pool, soc­cer, hockey rinks, bas­ket­ball courts, beach vol­ley­ball courts, you name it, its all there at my dis­posal. And there are games every­where, on every floor, free arcades and every­thing. I’m really look­ing for­ward to play­ing NHL 2009, I hope its playable right now! I also get games for $20 bucks, and I think I can get some for friends, so, any requests?

The most mind­blow­ing thing for me was the fact that the gym is open 24/7. Thats right, its open all the time, and I THINK they said I can get a pass for one per­son (or it might have been for reg­u­lar employ­ees, not 100% sure, I’ll have to check on that). Not sure who I’m going to give that to, I want to give it to some­one who would get the most use out of it.

Besides all that, we got an exten­sive tour of the whole build­ing, as well as some man­di­tory pre­sen­ta­tions about poli­cies and prac­tices, noth­ing too excit­ing. Tomor­row all the co-ops have to do a Soft­ware Engi­neer­ing infor­ma­tion ses­sion, and then Wednes­day I finally get to meet the team I’ll be work­ing with! I’ll post about that stuff at the end of the week. I would post every day, but I’m lazy, so I won’t make that promise.

So, today I got a job offer from Elec­tronic Arts!

I’m pretty excited, work­ing at EA is some­thing that I’ve always wanted to do since, well, I can remem­ber really. I’m going to be work­ing for the EA Sports­word team, and which devel­ops the EA Sports­world web­site.

I’m guess­ing you’re all won­der­ing how I got the job. Well it was pretty sim­ple actu­ally, I just applied through my schools (SFU) Coop pro­gram and made a redicu­lously decked out cover let­ter and resume in hopes for an inter­view. I ended up get­ting a phone inter­view, and then they offered me a tech­ni­cal inter­view, which I accepted obvi­ously. I’ve heard that they really grill you at there tech­ni­cal inter­views, so I spent a good cou­ple of days study­ing, which I think worked out well for me. I would talk about what was on the inter­view, but I had to sign an NDA (Non-disclosure agree­ment), so I’m not really sure what I’m legally allowed to talk about, but lets just say, it was very difficult!

So, this morn­ing I got the call from coop let­ting me know that they wanted to offer me the job!!! I can’t wait, I’m really look­ing for­ward to all the perks as well, like the free gym, soc­cer field, roller hockey floor, volly­ball court (with sand!), and a ton of other stuff. I also get games for $10 bucks a pop =D.

I’ll be work­ing there from May 5th to August 22nd, so I’ll prob­a­bly be blog­ging about it while I’m there (but not giv­ing away any infor­ma­tion that would get me fired =P).

Hope­fully I’ll be able to give some peo­ple some tours, bet­ter call dibs