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hitech

Post subject: RF Eng Interiviews Posted: Sat Mar 25, 2006 10:10 pm

Lieutenant

Joined: Sat Mar 25, 2006 10:01 pm

Posts: 3

Hi

Do anyone have onsite interview experience for RF Eng positions with Sprint? Can you please give some pointers w.r.t the questions asked?

Thanks a ton.

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mshafer

Post subject: Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 4:49 pm

Colonel

Joined: Thu Aug 04, 2005 3:49 pm

Posts: 29

Location: Overland Park, Kansas

If you interview with me, I tend to mix up the questions and I identify quickly whether you have the full understanding or just the surface answers. Not to trick you, but to make sure whomever hires on enjoys their work and have the knowledge to be very successful.

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remember_the_rf_engineer

Post subject: Future WorkPosted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:24 am

Lieutenant

Joined: Thu May 25, 2006 1:18 am

Posts: 4

What areas does the above mentioned CDMA firm may intend to work on 2 years from now?? EVDO, EVDV, Wimax, etcc?????

Thanks.

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mshafer

Post subject: Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 10:24 am

Colonel

Joined: Thu Aug 04, 2005 3:49 pm

Posts: 29

Location: Overland Park, Kansas

Great question....with the consumer and feature rich applications continually demanding more speed, higher quality service, and cheaper prices, my team, being a functional R&D organization, will continue to have new technologies such as Rel A, WiMax, alternative mobile transmission/receive technologies and countless other items to study, trial, and improve upon. Our function is to look at ways to make our technology work better - kind of a good to great strategy - rather than break fix type analysis - this approach applies to all RF technologies that come our way.....have an awesome day!

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mshafer

Post subject: Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 10:25 am

Colonel

Joined: Thu Aug 04, 2005 3:49 pm

Posts: 29

Location: Overland Park, Kansas

Great question....with the consumer and feature rich applications continually demanding more speed, higher quality service, and cheaper prices, my team, being a functional R&D organization, will continue to have new technologies such as Rel A, WiMax, alternative mobile transmission/receive technologies and countless other items to study, trial, and improve upon. Our function is to look at ways to make our technology work better - kind of a good to great strategy - rather than break fix type analysis - this approach applies to all RF technologies that come our way.....have an awesome day!

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If you love CDMA, you have to come join my team!!!!!!!

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remember_the_rf_engineer

Post subject: Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 9:08 am

Lieutenant

Joined: Thu May 25, 2006 1:18 am

Posts: 4

Thank you for your reply!

This may be a sales thing...

But, there may be many potential CDMA markets in other continents.... Asia .. Australia where CDMA may not be so prevalent....

With the stature of the firm like Sprint... does it have any policy of expanding business in those regions??

Thanks,

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mshafer

Post subject: Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 11:11 am

Colonel

Joined: Thu Aug 04, 2005 3:49 pm

Posts: 29

Location: Overland Park, Kansas

CDMA strategic partnerships in India, Australia, Korea and China currently exist with an entire team dedicated to international business opportunities.....

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pradeepsangwan

Post subject: Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 6:43 pm

Lieutenant

Joined: Mon Jun 12, 2006 6:41 pm

Posts: 3

Location: Arliington, Texas

mshafer wrote:

If you interview with me, I tend to mix up the questions and I identify quickly whether you have the full understanding or just the surface answers. Not to trick you, but to make sure whomever hires on enjoys their work and have the knowledge to be very successful.

If I could know all this before my interiew with you Mr. Shafer.

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mshafer

Post subject: Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 9:50 am

Colonel

Joined: Thu Aug 04, 2005 3:49 pm

Posts: 29

Location: Overland Park, Kansas

Hopefully most interviewers do the same thing I do....try to get to depth of understanding......thanks again for taking your time to interview and prepare.....I wish I had room for more new grads on my team.....good luck in your future!

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Posted  11/12/2012