Henry Lubong's Journal

That’s right, today is my first day at Wink. A lot of you thought I was going to Google but I chose to work for Wink instead. Yes, I was also interviewed by Google but the process of interview was too long and I don’t think it is worth the wait… well at least not for me. Wink is a social search engine and a startup company located in the border of Mountain View and Los Altos.

So yeah, I started winking it today. I came in at 9AM (too early for a typical Yahoo)… hohummm. It’s weird coming to work without my purple badge and I miss the beeping sound from opening the door of the building. My cube is in the same row as David Koblas and David Beach, both ex-Yahoo employees. Somehow, it does feel like I still work for Yahoo I like it that our cubes our facing the window. It’s nice to look at some green things outside instead of looking at modular walls all day. I also love my huge LCD wide-screen monitor, 24″ Dell baby!

Koblas, gave me a brief overview about the codes and a task that was already assigned to me. At 11AM, we had a meeting and I was introduced to everyone in the group. After lunch, I waste no time and got my machine setup to get it ready for my first project. I started working right away and started digesting the code that’s exposed to me for the very first time. Believe me, in a corporate company, typically, they give you at least a week or two to settle in before you get your hands dirty.

Coincidentally, today is also my first wedding anniversary. I stayed until 6PM today at work but I knew this was gonna happen so I already took my wife out last night at Roy’s restaurant in Pebble Beach. We still managed to have a small dinner celebration tonight though in our house with some of our friends. I’m already tired and I need to take some tylenol.