Possible Bona-fide Cowgirl?

Greetings Traceologists!

    I am back from Dallas and the interview went stellar!  I hear a decision around Wednesday and my life is slowly resuming normalcy.  Dallas was awesome! I arrived Thursday night, stayed at a Hilton Garden Inn, and basically prepped for my interview and slept.  Friday was interview day which occurred from 8am to 4pm.  They first gave us an overview of the company, the benefits entailed with the job I applied for, along with a meet and greet.  Once formalities were made, the company had approximately 17 interviewers in which each candidate was interviewed by 3 employees.  After the gruesome 2 and a half hour interview, lunch was served along with a presentation on the different types of products generated from the company.  The job I applied for is part of Raytheon’s S.A.S. (space and aeronautical systems) program which involves the design and manufacturing of various sensors, satellites, microprocessors, motherboards, etc that assist in the operations of various platforms.  Probably the most notable "invention" of the company is the sensor located on the Predator aircraft featured in the armed forces commercial.  The final event of the day included 2 tours; the first was a tour of an assembly line for integrated motherboards that are custom made and are solely produced “in house.”  The second tour was more of a CSI type of job in which chemists and mechanical engineers use latest technology to identify foreign objects (i.e. liquids, deformations, solids, etc.) collected in different weapons systems to see how and if they affect the production and performance of a specific component.  Overall the experience was priceless and amazing!

 After the exhausting interviewing day, 3 other candidates and I hit up downtown Dallas to see what the city was like.  Unknown to us non-Texans, this past weekend was the Texas/OU rivalry game…downtown was NUTS!  That rivalry put the UF FSU or UM rivalry to SHAMMEE…granted it’s an older rivalry but jeez people were way more passionate.  We ate dinner at a nice seafood restaurant and then proceeded to check out the nightlife.  We hit up a few hot spots and then decided to call it a night at 2 am realizing that we needed to be at the airport in less than 5 hours.  Needless to say, I was extremely exhausted the next day travelling back to Tallahassee but wouldn’t trade the experience for anything.  I could definitely see myself living in Dallas and fingers crossed I hope to get the job!  So stay tuned everyone…Wednesday could be a make or break day! Till next time….