Moving to Seattle!
Friday, April 28th, 2006Yep, that’s right, we are moving to Seattle. That’s part of my silence recently. I’ve been interviewing, working out details, thinking about it, talking to Steph, and planning things out. I also didn’t want anything posted until work knew about our plans. How did it start?
I got an email on March 17th asking if I would be interested in a phone interview. I have two phone interviews, one on March 23rd and one on March 29th. Those both went very well and an on site interview was scheduled for April 13th. So we (yes, Steph and Zach went also) flew up to Seattle on Wednesday evening, April 12th. Amazon put us up in the Grand Hyatt (nice place). I had my interview on Thursday from 10:30am to 4pm (2 managers, 2 engineers, 2 ops people). Steph and Zach was shopping around downtown Seattle.
After the interview we had dinner at Gordon Biersch with Brian (he was up there for work). The next day we took the ferry to Bainbridge Island and then met with Kim for a tour of neighborhoods on the north side. Her and John (who works at Amazon) live in Queen Anne. We had lunch at Ray’s Boathouse and we had at Wild Ginger. Both were very enjoyable. The next day, Steph, Zach and I did a little road trip east through Issaquah, Snoqualmie, up to Woodinville where we had lunch at Red Hook Brewery (my favorite stop). Then we drove south into Maple Valley and Kent. We flew home on Saturday evening.
The offer came in on April 21st. We discussed it over the weekend and got details on the relocation and accepted. I start on May 30th. My last day at Yahoo is May 12th. Steph’s last day is May 19th. We fly up to Seattle on May 24th. Our house goes on the market on Monday, May 1st. So, things are moving fast and furious and I’m a nervous wreck.