Engineering Career and Job Hunting Advice for January 2019
Note: As a service to RF Cafe visitors, I will
post your company's tech-related job openings
at no cost. Only direct hiring companies' jobs are posted for free. If you are responsible
for hiring in your company, send me an e-mail with the job listing information and
I'll be glad to post it for you. The most recent list of jobs can be seen here. Recruiters may submit jobs for
posting at a cost of $500 per job.
As a rule, I do not respond to people who contact me about promoting their websites
when a quick check of their sites shows no mention of RF Cafe. Everyone in the website
search optimization game knows that having inbound hyperlinks from other highly
rated websites plays a major role in search results rankings. Job hunting and career
website representatives are frequent practitioners of the insult. They send an e-mail
telling you how posting a link to their websites will be a real boon to your own
website. It really takes a lot of
hutzpah
to request a favor without demonstrating fair play in return. For the record, I
have never in the twenty-year history of RF Cafe ever contacted someone to ask to
a link.
It has been a few months since I posted a list of useful articles on engineering
and other technology job search and career enhancement topics from around the Web.
Very noticeable when reviewing the subjects of most of these websites is a very high
concentration on social issues rather than on job performance and competency.
Indeed Company Rankings - Raytheon with 4.0 (1-5 scale) with 2382 reviews,
Analog Devices
gets 4.3 with 272 reviews,
Skyworks
has 3.4 with 9 reviews, Qorvo (formerly RF Micro Devices) gets 3.6 with 161 reviews,
Motorola
Solutions ranks a 4.1 with 2620 reviews,
Thales gets 4.0
with 1103 reviews, Huawei
ranks 3.8 with 2676 reviews.
Glass Door Company Rankings -
Raytheon with 3.6 (1-5 scale) with 3324 reviews,
Analog Devices gets 3.8 with 595 reviews,
Skyworks has 3.3 with 230 reviews,
Qorvo (formerly RF Micro Devices) gets 3.6 with 146 reviews,
Motorola Solutions ranks a 3.8 with 713 reviews,
Thales gets 3.2 with 172 reviews,
Huawei ranks 3.4 with 3577 reviews.
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