Comment by thadt

That’s how I got my first development gig. Freshly moved to a new city and needing a job, I did the usual ‘apply to everything in the paper and online’ shotgun approach. After a week of that, I suited up and started driving around to various companies with resume in hand. At one office park, I got lost and went to the wrong building. Reading the names of companies on the lobby plaque, one caught my eye that sounded like a tech company of some kind. So I walked upstairs and into their suite, which I found out later was their remote engineering office. They didn’t have a secretary, so I just poked my head into someone’s office and asked about a job. “Go talk to Doug down the hall”, they said. Doug, it turns out was the company’s VP of engineering whose response was “well, we need a software tester - when can you start?”