Interview day one

To be honest, it couldn't have gone any better.

I headed out at 8am to get some breakfast and happened to end up in the local Eagle breakfast cafe, so after ordering my coffee and Eggs Benedict I was a little shocked to hear my name being called out. I looked around and there was Andy Coote, ex head of Consultancy at ESRIUK who I knew was out doing some work for Eagle!

The office is lovely and has a really good feel and so far all of the people I have met I know that I could get along with.
The GIS team is only 35 people and bar 2 they are all based in Wellington, the other 2 being in Auckland covering sales within that city.
There is a great team feel and they have all been very welcoming towards me.

I have just come back from lunch with 3 of the team including Scott Campbell who moved here from ESRIUK 5 years ago. Having a beer at lunchtime! That rarely happens in the UK but is a reasonably regular thing here, especially when the weather is good...

I have been given some good heads up on where to live so am about to go and get a car to have drive before meeting David Swann in the lobby of my Hotel at 7pm to head out for dinner. I have more meetings tomorrow afternoon with the Head of Professional Services and 2 of the other account managers. After that David is meeting me on Friday in the Auckland office to do the negotiation of the offer so hopefully I can get all of that squared away before heading home.

So - I'm off out to get a car now, then dinner, then I will probably wait until tomorrow to update this as the Eagle internet connection is letting me upload photos no problem, unlike the hotel wireless!

All in all it feels really nice and I am sure that it is somewhere that I could work, which is great.
Now just to negotiate the deal!