The final presentation.
Overall a VERY fruitful day at Hacker Fair. I found some interesting freelance/part-time leads, and two great while yet very different companies in the city who I’d love to work with.
One is small lifestyle business with an amazing vacation package, and 20% time for personal open source development! The other is a growing household-name company who seems to encourage employees to have a life outside of work, and share it (think: show and tell). AWESOME.
I am strongly considering both as models to compare similar opportunities to; I am not sure which arrangement I will prefer, but this has me very excited for the future. I would love to return to either in a few months.
Of course everyone who put it on and participated on both sides of the table were awesome; big thanks!
For example: even if a recruiter and I found right away that it was not a good fit, they were friendly and continued the conversation about my project/their company before moving on. A very nice change of pace!