I'm helping someone look for a good microprocessor assembly language programmer (68HC11 preferred, or willing to learn it) and is in Athens, Georgia, or willing to commute there at least twice a week. The candidate should preferably have a master's degree.
If interested or if you want to recommend a candidate, please e-mail: m c @ u g a . e d u
Thanks!
Master's degree? In what? Assembly language programming? What universities confer such degrees? Putting a specialty degree requirement into a job posting is pointless. Your project goals are not specified so one cannot even guess what degrees might even apply.
I agree that the desirable attributes are exceptionally vague, most well-written job descriptions say what the application is so that they can get somebody with experience not only in coding but also in what the device is actually supposed to do. But very few job descriptions are well-written!
Especially when working for an academic institution, and doubly so when working for a state school, having the correct alphabet soup of diplomas becomes very important. I suspect that the subject of the Master's degree is somewhat unimportant (maybe it could even be in English Lit, and yes I know some embedded programmers with the background...) compared to its existence.
Most extreme example of this getting in way of the hiring process: I know a very famous nuclear physicist who was offered the job of being department head at the University of Michigan, but the offer fell apart when during the application process it came out that he didn't have a high school diploma, a requisite for ALL state employees. (He'd left high school to fight in WWII and immediately after went into college under the GI Bill eventually getting his PhD and a string of academic jobs, actually a rather common situation for bright kids of that era.)
Tim.
Notice the dot-edu address. The requirement is political.
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I was once taught a Masters of Information Sciences course at a local college (after several semesters of teaching undergrad Comp Sci). I asked the dean if I got the degree after I tought all the courses. He was not amused. Stuck-up pricks, academics.
-- Keith
Maybe this is not a job directly with the university. It sounds like he wants a private tutor. The master's degree requirement may be similar to a "blue blood" requirement: Nobody less that this stature would be worthy of tutoring me.
I agree that the subject of the degree is probably moot.
I'm probably a two or hours' drive away (I'm northwest Ga, verses Athens in northeast), and qualify for the rest. It's been a few years since I did HC11 but I remember it as being a good 8-bitter, a rather nice architecture for its age.
No, I don't have a Master's. I didn't stay in college quite that long. But it only says preferably, maybe I still have a chance.
Hmm, maybe I should, even though "HC11 Assembly" seems to have about as much future as FORTRAN...
I think the others nailed it. Athens, Ga just screams University of Georgia. There might be some tech companies there, but other than UGA itself I think the major industry is partying-related (college football of course, and I understand there's quite a good "bars & bands" music scene: R.E.M. and B52's started in Athens).
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