29-I-2003.
Slight drizzle started. Winter in Atlanta is a joke.
(I did shoot the nine shots for this before entering the building, and stitched them somehow within a couple of weeks. However, this is a fresh stitch, as of march 2022, because the software I now have is better than what I had then, or also in 2010. I could have straightened the crop, but then the buildings would slant. Better this way.)
Got there on time. The building is overlooking the beltway, has huge parking on the roof of the lower part (with more parking below). The interview went fine. By this time, I was already assured that I'm among the top 200 fox programmers in the world (assuming about 10% post on the forums), so I was rather relaxed, seeing by their questions that they know far less than I do.
The interesting moment was a question to name three bad things about fox. Easy: 1) it's m$'s unwanted child, 2) works only under windowses, 3) not Unicode. Seems they liked that.
At some point it seemed like they wanted to try to get a solution for some specific problem they had. Well I know the game, there were known cases when the companies pretended to hire only to milk the candidates for a solution, pretending it was a test question, and then hire nobody and have their problem solved. So I did tell them what to do, but in terms they could have heard somewhere but couldn't quite follow. „Extensive explanation follows if you hire me“ is the correct answer.
Then the boss took me for a tour of the app, explaining in length what they do. They are health insurance evaders. The business model goes like this: they go to employers and say "you pay your health bills through us; we are not an insurance, but we will work with the doctors and offer them customers if they sign up with us; they will give us discount for the trouble they won't have - which is dealing with insurances - and our fee is 20% of that discount".
Which seems to work quite fine - they are renting a whole floor of a large building, have their own elevator. The guys seem the usual friendly Foxen. Heard a story about a guy who puts caffeine pills into decaf coffee, calls it "recaf".
The outfit is a true corporation, with some stiff, seemingly flexible, scheme to motivate people to work better and earn more, but it has the nasty "group bonus" part, which probably doesn't help relationships on the job, and doesn't promise to arrive too frequently.
The trip back was even more boring than the yesterday's. Rain wasn't much, but it didn't stop until I left the highway, almost in Virginia. The pictoresque part was even more so, with the trees in headlights. Came home slightly light headed, but awake. Only rocked a little when I sat.
We'll see.
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