Education: Computer Science bachelor degree from a top CS university (top 5 in country, top 40 world-wide)
Years of Experience: 7 years software development, 20 years total (including IT, network engineering, cybersecurity etc.)
Prior Experience: Software experience was with 2 small and 1 large commercial software companies, building network management tools, debugging tools, and operating system framework internals.
Date of the Offer: July 2018
Company: The Buffalo Group
Title/Level: Software Developer 5
Location: Northern Virginia (metro Washington, DC), USA
Other details: Position requires US security clearance. Contract work for US military.
Outcome: Declined offer. After my successful interviews, I was told I'd be getting an offer, which I was intending to accept, but the company took long, long time (a month & a half) to actually get it to me. By the time they did, I had also received another offer, for slightly better compensation and doing more interesting work, which I accepted instead.