Power Supply Engineer - National Instruments - Austin, Texas

Cool.

Gonna watch the night sky and observe the transformer falshes;) We are officialy getting hammered by Sandy. DSL is still up;)

Cheers

"John Larkin" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

They'd stick around if management made it worth staying: lots of interesting work, good benefits, rich work environment, that sort of thing.

Are you saying your company has lots of turnover? Have you tried addressing that? Does it work?

Tim

HP used to do that. They don't any more. For a fun contrast, read Packard's book "The HP Way", then read Fiorina's Powerpoint-paperback "The journey."

Our turnover is very low. The work is fun, and the location, the pay, and the benefits are good.

The boss is a wonderful, caring person too.

At a good company they do. But we also have an obligation to society, to not take our accumulated knowledge with us into the grave.

Oh, I was a geek as well. Everything focused on ham radio. But >80% of our school was not, they weren't as extreme as in that movie (we were in Europe, so no cars at age 16) but the behavior was a bit similar. Whoever had the coolest and most souped-up moped was king. Unfortunately one guy wrecked out when he realized too late that moped brakes are inadequate at 50mph. He died :-(

It's not spam, the job ID is on the NI website. I hope they pay top dollar to whomever throws their life away on this incredibly boring and mundane job- what some people have to do to survive, it's enough to make you barf.

I fired up the generator, (fixed a little gas leak first), located flashlights, batteries, and started logs in the fireplace. We've got

As long as she doesn't 'park' above us it will be fine.

George H.

I'm fully stocked up on wine and Bombay Sapphire, so we're ready for the coming inclement weather...

The East Coast storm is God's wrath for voting Democrat >:-} ...Jim Thompson

It takes forever to kill an established company. Even Zilog sort of exists.

A crappier company than Micrel is CMD (California Micro Devices), but On Semi bought them for reasons I can't fathom.

And how did Fairchild come back from the dead?

It has been my experience that seemingly simple projects have a lot of nuance to them when you get into the nitty gritty. In analog, there is always something to improve.

Human Resources see their job as controlling who the comapany hires, as opposed to helping the comapany hire the right people. I got exactly that response from ASML human resources creeps in the Netherlands, when I had the termerity to go behind their backs because I thought they'd misread my CV (as human resources habitually do, for a whole range of candidates for engineering jobs.

I can't see any way of making money out of the fact that most companies allow the human resources department to screen applications for engineering jobs - and presumably applications for other kinds of jobs requiring tertiary education and specialised experience.

It's stupid - human resources departments aren't staffed with people with the necessary expertise - but it hapens a lot.

My father forbad human resources from even talking to the people he was hiring until he'd got their signatures on the contract and human resources couldn't persuade them to change their minds - it was hard enough to get people with degrees to even consider working in rural Tasmania without letting human resources put them off with stupid questions and patronising observations.

He's also got exaggerated ideas about the quality of the stuff he designs and manufactures. Exactly how exaggerated I'm not in a position to judge, but "insanely good" sounds implausible.

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It was complicated. Schlumberger bought up the whole Fairchild Camera and Instrument conglomerate, and eventually sold off the semiconductor division to National Semiconductor, who then split out themselves up and used the Fairchild name for some of the parts.

Of course you are not in a position to judge. You don't design electronics.

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

Yea, I'm out numbered.

If the tree down the block didn't take down the power lines, we'd have power. But I fired up the generator this morning and hooked up the house. The south shore got hit good. The high tide started dozen of fires last night. The Fire dept's just had to walk away, because the water was too deep.

Threes 900,000 customers with out power. Feels like CT ;)

Cheers

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The usual defective logic. I'd be in a position to judge if I'd used any of your products - I don't have to have designed them to know whether they meet their specifications or are straightforward to use. In fact I've probably designed enough of that kind of electronics to criticise the designs, if I could get at them, but that's rarely necessary or useful, and it takes quite a bit longer to get your head around what another designer was intending to do that it does to judge how well a piece of equipment does what it was claimed to do.

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Jim believes in a prescient God, who punished people for the way they were going to vote? Even the ones who end up dead?

But isn't going to publish all those who are going to vote for a heretic? Mitt Romney is a Mormon ...

I suppose it's still respectable to believe in a God, but believing that you could second-guess your particular God is probably a touch blasphemous.

Do you honestly think a company like Highland Technology would be in business, create solid local jobs, have low turnover and make a profit for decades if it didn't sell top product? What phantasy world are you living in?

In America it's such success that counts.

We live in a few of the thousands of niches that exist for specialized electronics. The niches are small (megabuck markets, not gigabuck), tend to have few or no competitors, and require really learning the customer's technical and non-technical, often personal, needs. It's bottom-up stuff.

And fun. That counts too.

Bill seems familiar with the big-company model. Investors, marketing, management, HR, engineering teams, being a cog in the wheel of a huge top-down enterprise that he has little control over. Not so much fun.