My First Day at Thoughtworks
Well, to sum it up: WOW! I couldn’t be more impressed. I’m not impressed by how good people were technically. I’m impressed by how nice everyone is. I never got such a positive vibe from people working with me.
When I first arrived here I was waiting in the “kitchen”, since Danilo that started in the same day as me would only arrive in half an hour. You can tell that TW is not just your regular company by their kitchen. It has all sorts of things to make you feel home, like sodas, chocolates, fruits, videogames, board games and cushions. Well I can say it works. I actually feel home.
So I waited until he got here. When he arrived we were introduced to all sorts of financial stuff we needed to know about TW. Vacation, payroll details and stuff like that.
After that we had a meeting with the People People (this is not a typo). They told us all about how the company is structured, what is not tolerated here (like racism and harassment, which is REALLY nice), what to expect from TW and what they expect of us. It was a really nice talk.
We then had our meeting with the Resource Management people. They are the ones that tell us which projects we’ll be in. I already have a brand new .Net project awaiting me next Monday. Danilo is in a Ruby project himself (lucky you man!!!). I’m REALLY anxious for starting to work and code! Those of you that know me can tell how much I like coding!
Then we went for the sweetest meeting of the day. Don’t get me wrong, people in the other meetings were as nice as it gets, but in this meeting I got my brand new MacBook Pro! It’s really beautiful and I’m now learning all sorts of things about Mac OS X Leopard. It’s a brand new world to explore! Isn’t it exciting???
Well, the infrastructure people explained to us all about how to use e-mail, calendars, timesheet apps and stuff like that. Again, a really nice talk.
Since this last one took longer than the others, we called it a day and went home.
I’m really looking forward starting in a real project! Wish me LUCK!
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