mshafer Post subject: Would you Rather Have a Job that pays alot
but drains you... Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 4:29 pm Colonel
Joined: Thu Aug 04, 2005 3:49 pm Posts: 29 Location: Overland
Park, Kansas Would you Rather Have a Job that pays alot but only
takes from you and gives you little say in your future. Or a career
that pays well and continually builds your skillset, knowledge base,
and leadership skills where your future and direction is under your
control? I am in charge of an RF Engineering research and testing
team for Sprint and have been trying for the past year or so to find
individuals who have 3 to 5+ years of RF CDMA experience. (no room right
now for new grads). 15+ year RF CDMA System Engineers from Nortel, Lucent,
Motorola, or Samsung can command large salaries and would receive projects
with $100 million impacts to the company. 15+ years and you want to
stay technical and not be forced into management to grow, I have many
slots for you with great salaries! My question to the group is,
most all of the folks I interview appear to mainly have done drive testing
or post processing and if they had in-depth CDMA knowledge on OM's,
Parameters, Algorithms, Call flow, and the like, it's not something
they were able to demonstrate clearly. It seems alot of these contracting
firms, regardless of your education, stick folks in drive vans or have
them populate spreadsheets for clients which after 6 or 8 months, most
folks' brains have gone to mush......are there any RF Engineers out
there who want to research and study to the greatest detail all RF CDMA/EVDO
topics for all 4 major vendors? Are there any folks who understand the
intracacies of the technology so as to allow them to complete patents
to help shape where CDMA/EVDO is heading in the future? Are there any
RF Engineers out there who feel they know much more than their present
job is asking of them? Anyone out there who wishes they had a coach
instead of a boss? Anyone out there sick of traveling and staying in
strange hotels? Anyone out there who loves to play cricket regularly?
Anyone out there who wants a career instead of a job? Anyone out there
who loved the white board sessions in Engineering school where technical
topics where hotly debated and exciting results where just one great
thought away? If any of you exist, I promise, I've got the greatest
team waiting for you to come join them...think of this job as a permanent
masters or PHD program that you get paid to complete....the learning
is that continual and the environment is the perfect mixture of business
results driving limitless engineering research.......please contact
me directly with your resume Edited by Kirt Blattenberger 6/13/2006
Please read the forum rules - recruiter postings not permitted.
_________________ If you love CDMA, you have to come join my
team!!!!!!! Top pradeepsangwan Post subject:
Re: Would you Rather Have a Job that pays alot but drains yoPosted:
Mon Jun 12, 2006 7:29 pm Lieutenant Joined: Mon Jun 12,
2006 6:41 pm Posts: 3 Location: Arliington, Texas mshafer
wrote: Would you Rather Have a Job that pays alot but only takes
from you and gives you little say in your future. Or a career that pays
well and continually builds your skillset, knowledge base, and leadership
skills where your future and direction is under your control?
I am in charge of an RF Engineering research and testing team for
Sprint and have been trying for the past year or so to find individuals
who have 3 to 5+ years of RF CDMA experience. (no room right now for
new grads). 15+ year RF CDMA System Engineers from Nortel, Lucent, Motorola,
or Samsung can command large salaries and would receive projects with
$100 million impacts to the company. 15+ years and you want to stay
technical and not be forced into management to grow, I have many slots
for you with great salaries! My question to the group is, most
all of the folks I interview appear to mainly have done drive testing
or post processing and if they had in-depth CDMA knowledge on OM's,
Parameters, Algorithms, Call flow, and the like, it's not something
they were able to demonstrate clearly. It seems alot of these contracting
firms, regardless of your education, stick folks in drive vans or have
them populate spreadsheets for clients which after 6 or 8 months, most
folks' brains have gone to mush......are there any RF Engineers out
there who want to research and study to the greatest detail all RF CDMA/EVDO
topics for all 4 major vendors? Are there any folks who understand the
intracacies of the technology so as to allow them to complete patents
to help shape where CDMA/EVDO is heading in the future? Are there any
RF Engineers out there who feel they know much more than their present
job is asking of them? Anyone out there who wishes they had a coach
instead of a boss? Anyone out there sick of traveling and staying in
strange hotels? Anyone out there who loves to play cricket regularly?
Anyone out there who wants a career instead of a job? Anyone out there
who loved the white board sessions in Engineering school where technical
topics where hotly debated and exciting results where just one great
thought away? If any of you exist, I promise, I've got the greatest
team waiting for you to come join them...think of this job as a permanent
masters or PHD program that you get paid to complete....the learning
is that continual and the environment is the perfect mixture of business
results driving limitless engineering research.......please contact
me directly with your resume I think the problem, here, Mr.
shafer is that fresh graduates (MSEE or BSEE) are so sick of studying
tht they just want to jump in the job wagon and earn whatever they can
doing what they can call an ENGINEERING job. I can vouch for what I
said as I recently graduated in May and can vividly recall every night
spent awake preparing for a project or a test every other day. Although
I enjoyed doing it for the past 6-7 years, thoughts like "When's it
all going to end?" do creep your mind every now and then. The problem,in
my opinion, with people who've been working for a while is that they
find themselves in strange waters if they are required to study 15 hrs
a week on new technologies. I think there are very few motivated people
out there. This might sound out of context but since we're talking
about it, lemme add that grad schools don't prepare you for the REAL
WORLD at all. There's no emphasis on what's required in the industry.
With 3 hrs a week schedule the most they can do is to introduce the
students to the peripheries of the RF world. I agree that its your own
motivation that drives you but I think the professors should atleast
tell the class (maybe in the last lecture) what is that employers would
be looking out for when they see a mention of the course in their Resume.
I don't know if you remember Mr. Shafer but you recently interviewed
me a couple of weeks back and I think if I had some kind of an orientation
before that as to how to go about it and what kind of answers employers
look for, I'd have faired much better in the interview. I'm saying all
this because I felt sad after the interview because there's much more
that I knew but just couldn't convince you that I do. Maybe it's because
that was my very first job interview but then I'd still suggest (if
anybody is listening) that the Professors spend atleast half an hour
in a semester to orient the students towards the industry. I feel
lucky that I finally found a place to converse with peers as well as
seniors like you (thanks to you as you mentioned it). If only could
find it on my own, I'd have made a better impression on you by reading
the books you mentioned and other things. LOL BTW apart from
other things I LOVE playing cricket and regardless of you hiring me
or not , I'm gonna come to Kansas some day and beat you in a game of
cricket. That ways I'd be able to set an example that a 20+ year experience
RF Engineer is not always better than a fresher in everything. So if
u're wanting to strengthen your team in cricket too, you know what to
do. Top remember_the_rf_engineer Post subject:
Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 10:12 pm Lieutenant Joined:
Thu May 25, 2006 1:18 am Posts: 4 Mr Shafer, It is really
nice to read this encouraging mail specially for fresh graduates.
If there is a working environment like this, surely that's the best
place to work at. I would like to discuss some things mentioned
in the mail: a. True, in most places, there are drive-testers.
b. The situation in real wireless life is pretty different than
in an university... There are sound graduates in wireless. But they
dont have the idea of real time network, switch commands and codes....
They know what type of modulation is involved, but they dont have
network-simulators to see what parameters need to be changed....
c. Even for working professionals - Incidentally in contemporay
firms, a lot is said about cost-savings. " Money is everything..."
In that scenario, business personnels tend to forget that training
is an important part of job.. Example.. to get training costs
big money... and even if I were a manager or CEO(which I am not...),
I would have preferred to save that money.... And in this cost-conscious
market, it's not easy to find the sound talent in any field.
d. RF Industry - QUERY: In any RF environment, what is the scope
of growth for any professional , other than working in Excel & macros.
I do agree with you its difficult to find self-motivated personnels..
who not only believe in working 8-5 & completing reports , but also
have a zeal to grow for themselves.. for their firm... Thank
You, Posted
11/12/2012
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