BIG BambooHR!

Andrew signed a job offer! Booyah! BambooHR is NOT a startup. Startups are risky and I've been ready to divorce them for awhile. Here's to stability and finally having a 401k option/matching.

BambooHR has been around for 15 years! They have never done layoffs in that time! The company is large! There are 40 engineering teams. BambooHR is located in Draper! Employees work both at home and in the office. From what we've heard, BambooHR is close to IPO ing which means they'll be a publicly traded company. This shows they're doing well.

BambooHR is a company that makes software for managing HR and payroll. Andrew will still be doing Quality Assurance.  Yippee! For awhile, we wondered if it was time to change fields. The tech industry has been brutal to us. Andrew's official job title is "SDET" which stands for software engineer in test. BambooHR wants Andrew to write the framework for their automated testing efforts. 

His start date is October 21 or 28 pending his background check. I have been long-term substitute teaching a 3rd grade class for a few weeks. First, the teacher's mom died. The day before the teacher was supposed to return, her dad passed away too. This poor teacher. I have been a busy woman working full-time as a school teacher and teaching piano before and after school 2 days a week. I didn't intend to sub so much. The teacher will be out next week too, so I will continue helping them out to provide some stability for the students. Penelope is lucky to have had so much one-on-one time with her playful daddy.

A neighbor sent me this and said she thought it was the cutest to see them all waiting on the steps for carpool in the morning after waving goodbye to me.

Andrew had his first call with the BambooHR recruiter on Thursday, September 12. He had an interview with them on Monday, September 16. After that, the next person that needed to interview Andrew went to Japan for 2 weeks and we had to *patiently wait for his return... Andrew had another interview with BambooHr on October 2. This was a technical interview where they checked Andrew's skills. Let's just say he passed with flying colors. Andrew was told he can write code faster than the interviewers and they kept telling him to stop and they'd seen enough. They were also impressed he was conversing with them while coding and said they could stop talking if that would be best. 

Andrew had a final interview with BambooHR on Tuesday, October 8 and it went swimmingly. The head of QA kept trying to beat around the bush but finally just said, "you'll be getting an offer later this week." Andrew got a verbal offer October 9 and the written offer today, October 11. They did a thorough check-in with 4 references and told Andrew all gave him "glowing" reviews.

We know someone that works at BambooHR and they have wonderful things to say. It's a substantial company.

Andrew also interviewed to be an SDET at the church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints. He had a second interview with them on Friday, September 27 and didn't hear anything back, even after sending a follow-up email and thank you. When Andrew got the offer from BambooHR, he texted a family friend of ours that works for the church and was told the church hired an internal candidate and that HR was supposed to have emailed. I think BambooHR was meant to be. I was able to get to the point of praying that "I would see the Lord's hand throughout this process" instead of "bless that Andrew will get the job from the church or Lendio."

The story behind Andrew being let go is bizarre and I won't get into it on a public platform. Let me just say it was the worst job Andrew has had by a landslide. The company had mandatory meetings and the topics were political. Employees were told they had to memorize the Bill of Rights or they would be fired. Some other meeting topics included gun control, presidential candidates, VP debates, etc. Company time was also used to watch documentaries unrelated to their investment app. None of this was appropriate for the workplace. 

Someone high up in leadership position had a drug addiction and still had decision-making power. This led to many things happening that didn't make sense like an entire department being let go on a whim, and someone Andrew hired being fired without cause. Andrew lost his job on  Wednesday, September 4. Andrew's old boss texted him after the fact saying she would highly recommend him for a job. Andrew has had experience working for many companies and has seen a variety of QA methods. He knows what he's doing. BambooHR is lucky to have Andrew or "Ditto" which I'm sure is what he'll go by.

We have a babysitter booked for tonight and have been dreaming about and planning our celebratory date for weeks. I'll give you a hint. Trader Joe's is involved...