Capstone Post #3–Interview

I FINALLY got my interview! Yaaaaaaay! I interviewed Crystal, an engineer at The Gravity Group via email. She was only able to answer 5 out of 11 of my questions, but I requested an interview to four different companies/people, and I forget some of their names… ANYWAY, back to the interview I actually got: Crystal was REALLY nice about taking her time to answer my questions. Her answers were fairly lengthy, about a paragraph long, and to the point. Speaking of ‘to the point:’ I LOVED THE ANSWERS!! I can’t put them on this post, though, because the document she answered them in is on my dad’s drive, and there are two problems with that:

  1. I don’t know his password
  2. I have no clue about the first thing about hacking drive accounts if that’s even possible

 

I had attempted to interview two people before I found The Gravity Group, which was someone at Six Flags: Great Adventure (I had mentioned that in my first post) and the biggest roller coaster company in America, (“Yeah, you’d be extremely lucky to get those guys,”my dad had said) S&S Worldwide. The hr (human resources) viewed the questions from the link we shared with her, and apparently, she wasn’t able to answer most of them, and this was one of their busiest years, PLUS (as if there weren’t enough reasons) she’d have to get many people from the company to answer my questions, and she couldn’t do that. Now, the reason that I couldn’t get an interview at Six Flags, a reason that is unspoken, THE UNSPOKEN REASON, IS ABOUT TO BE SPOKEN: no one replied to my email. 🙁 The other reason it took me SO LONG (dramatic flare) is because I was waiting for a while before I gave up on the company/amusement park for an interview. This interview affected my daily life! This was the average walk home from school with my dad:

“So, did I get a reply?”

“No”

“Awww…”

“You need to start looking for a backup!”

“I’m trying, and I gave a list of phone numbers and emails to you.”

“BUT THIS IS YOUR PROJECT, NOT MINE!”

“I KNOW, I JUST WANT YOU TO SEND THE EMAILS BECAUSE I DON’T HAVE AN EMAIL!!”

“YOU NEED TO TAKE INITIATIVE!”
“I AM, I CALLED A COMPANY YESTERDAY, AND THEY COULDN’T ANSWER THEM, REMEMBER?!?!”

“Oh yeah…”

“AUUUGH!! WILL YOU SEND THE EMAILS PLEASE?? FOR THE LAST TIME, I DON’T HAVE AN EMAIL!!!”

“Okay, fine…”

“GOOD!”

YEESH! Now that I write that conversation out, I realize a very important lesson about being nice: I need to politely ask my dad to give me an email. ANYWAY! Crystal even managed to answer a couple of questions that I thought were meant for an amusement park staff, for example, “How often do you maintain a roller coaster?” She answered that with “We check that everything is working every day. In the winter, we take the cart off the track…” (I don’t remember the rest). Anyway, I plan to get more answers if I manage to get all extra four of my interviews!

 

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