Yes, good job
1. avoid MSFT and IBM garbage, and bodyshoppers (regardless of the euphemism under which they try to market themselves) and "IT" shops (who want only trapped "house geeks")
2. Size of company: 20-100K employees
3. Publicly traded or private firm: yes
4. Maturity of company: that's beside the point
5. Rate of growth: If it aint growing, they're not hiring. The question is whether they've got good products (or at least are on their way to developing what promises to be a good product) or are churning out garbage.
6. Risk/reward tolerance (can you work for a poorly funded startup in exchange for stock options and growth opportunities?): No, I am not independently wealthy, nor do I have wealthy backers to keep me alive for the years until the company turns a profit.
7. Industry: software publishing (for science, econ, utilities, engineering, movie-making)
8. Office environment: yes, office and manufacturing :B-)
9. Team size: immediate, 12; software dev organization, hundreds; with cooperation with the rest of the firm
10. Are the execs able and willing to invest in new-hire and retained employee training and education? Do they tend to leap after lame B-school bozo fads instead of solid, substantial improvement (both incremental and new venture)?
