Job posting

aren't they HQ'd in Santa Clara, CA? Jim Tiernan still president?

have you done work for them?

I don't know, I think so.

I don't know the management structure.

Yes. The Rochester (NY) group... touch screens.

I thought the job posting rather hilarious... needed, a PhD, but must be able to handle a multimeter... >:-} ...Jim Thompson

I don't know, I think so.

I don't know the management structure.

Yes. The Rochester (NY) group... touch screens.

My experience is that hiring personnel usually have no idea what actually matters in hiring someone.

I have this on my personal site:

Employer rejection: "Lack of experience"

Actual meaning:

"We have no idea whatsoever how to do the product we are currently developing, and so are looking for someone that can bring across all the schematics from their present company, that is doing an almost identical product. We can then do some minimal window dressing and release that product as our own. We don't actually require you to have any of these design skills personally and it is unlikely that you do, only a decent memory so that you don't have to physically copy the designs that others have made. This is avoid any possible legal repercussions such as liability for trade theft."

Kevin Aylward B.Sc.

it did seem a bit condescending.

Just trying to weed out the hard core algorithm guys. There's an industry perception that Ph.D. EEs are too specialized and want to keep doing their thesis work for the rest of their careers.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

You need to work with more PhD's. They range from eggheads that can spout theory all day long but whose lives you fear for if they walk into a lab or a manufacturing floor, to guys that grew up wrenching on cars or building radios who can do ANYTHING.

Members of the latter group are generally more useful, unless you really have a need for theory-crunching, and a support staff to keep the boffin in clean shirts and away from the technicians.

They must have hired some of the other kind.

My uncle used to work for Boeing. When he interviewed engineering candidates he'd make sure to have a soldering iron in his drawer. At some point he'd casually pick it up and hand it, point-first, to the candidate, with a "here".

If you grabbed it by the point (which, apparently, many did), your interview was polite and short, and you didn't get hired.

Must be a joke job posting surely; can't possibly be serious.

Yep. The specifics of job postings are getting ridiculous. "We want a PLL expert for the exact band of 5.0-5.1GHz, used with the magico modulo modulation method, and performed the design in the last six months." ...Jim Thompson

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I do similar things when tasked with interviewing people, although on the whiteboard instead of with tools. Well, I did place some folks in front of a scope and asked them to make something visible without using the granny button.

Lately when I tried to explain this to a university professor he said that's ridiculous. This kind of reaction by people in charge of the next generation is the real sad part. Although when candidates wake up at the point in life where they are inundated with academic demands it's usually a bit late to get the hang of practical stuff, at least in the analog world.

May be part of an INS application. They can't hire anyone local, but they have an international worker that can do the job. Just need a work visa.

That's because they already know who they want to hire, so they basically take his resume and make it the job posting. Result: only one qualified candidate, no regulatory worries.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Den tirsdag den 8. april 2014 22.52.10 UTC+2 skrev snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com:

would make sense, they could have had the guy working on that specific thing in another country for 6 months and then decide to move him locally

I've had an L-1B which is basically that case though it is only for people working within the same company or subsidiaries and max 3 years

-Lasse

Both the PhDs I've been supervising for the last 2-3 years can handle test equipment and such like competently. I don't think it's their favorite thing, particularly the more theoretical guy.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

My first day at IBM, I was shown a bench with a nice pretty new 7904 on a cart in front of it. After five minutes I had to ask where the power switch was. For those of you kids unfamiliar with the 7904, the power switch was a *big* bat handled switch right in the middle of the front panel. I was looking at all the other controls trying to figure out where they hid the power switch. ;-)

This notion is not unfounded. EE/CE/CS PhDs in academia do exactly that and hope that funding agencies keep providing money to support all this arcane mumbo jumbo forever. For example, a group profs at UT Austin ECE dept have been slogging away for the last several years on a 'mathematical theory of wireless networks' and are nowhere close to a meaningful solution.

Great idea! Hiring people like that is guaranteed to get people with skills to make designs that give you the edge to beat your competitors, not! As in same song, second verse.

Oh, they could hire someone who is local. Or a consultant. But better to dick around some foreigner who wants a green card. It is the American way.

One place I worked would interview the dumb asses who thought the job offer was real on Saturday so that nobody could see that s*it going on.