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sdaq
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Thu Feb 10, 2005 7:58 am Post subject:
In need of some life-changing advice |
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I just graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in
Computer Engineering. I am currently doing QA for a software developer
and I realize that this is definately not what I want to do. The more I
think about doing hardware design, the more I hear a voice in my head
subtly whispering to me: "WEST ... GO WEST...". Sure, there is some
hardware design over here on the east coast, but I am just so freaking
sick of this cold weather. Can anyone offer any advice on making the
move from the east coast to the west coast in hopes of landing that
hardware job of my dreams?
Sincerely,
Oren F. |
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Alex Colvin
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Thu Feb 10, 2005 7:31 pm Post subject:
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| Quote: | subtly whispering to me: "WEST ... GO WEST...". Sure, there is some
hardware design over here on the east coast, but I am just so freaking
sick of this cold weather. Can anyone offer any advice on making the
move from the east coast to the west coast in hopes of landing that
hardware job of my dreams?
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Both Rochesters are west of you.
sounds like yur voice says "SOUTH...GO SOUTH".
how about http://www.sophia-antipolis.net/
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mac the naïf |
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Del Cecchi
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Thu Feb 10, 2005 8:33 pm Post subject:
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sdaq wrote:
| Quote: | I just graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in
Computer Engineering. I am currently doing QA for a software developer
and I realize that this is definately not what I want to do. The more I
think about doing hardware design, the more I hear a voice in my head
subtly whispering to me: "WEST ... GO WEST...". Sure, there is some
hardware design over here on the east coast, but I am just so freaking
sick of this cold weather. Can anyone offer any advice on making the
move from the east coast to the west coast in hopes of landing that
hardware job of my dreams?
Sincerely,
Oren F.
If you pick a job by the weather you will be disappointed. First decide |
what you want to do. Then choose among the available opportunities.
The southeast, and texas are also possibilites. What is the "hardware
job of your dreams?" |
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sdaq
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Fri Feb 11, 2005 12:10 am Post subject:
Re: In need of some life-changing advice |
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I am just so sick of this cold weather here on the east coast. the
southeast and texas sounds great. the hardware job of my dreams would
be where I have unlimited resources of learning in the field of digital
logic design with FPGAs and eventually ASICs. Already I've gotten two
offers from software companies that offer fairly competitive salaries
but for computer science degrees, and I am a computer engineer. after
much contemplation I turned them down thinking it would not be right
for me to just settle for a job when it is not truly my passion. I was
considering a trip over to the west coast and making a list of
companies I could drop by and deliver a copy of my resume and maybe
even chat with them. What about the southeast? in general, how does
someone make the jump to another part of the country in hopes of
finding a job and warmer climate? |
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Del Cecchi
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Fri Feb 11, 2005 12:20 am Post subject:
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sdaq wrote:
| Quote: | I am just so sick of this cold weather here on the east coast. the
southeast and texas sounds great. the hardware job of my dreams would
be where I have unlimited resources of learning in the field of digital
logic design with FPGAs and eventually ASICs. Already I've gotten two
offers from software companies that offer fairly competitive salaries
but for computer science degrees, and I am a computer engineer. after
much contemplation I turned them down thinking it would not be right
for me to just settle for a job when it is not truly my passion. I was
considering a trip over to the west coast and making a list of
companies I could drop by and deliver a copy of my resume and maybe
even chat with them. What about the southeast? in general, how does
someone make the jump to another part of the country in hopes of
finding a job and warmer climate?
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Noting that I am not an authority on job changing, I believe that the
normal way is to look at ads, web sites, etc to pick out a couple of
areas that one might be interested in and then search for available jobs
at companies there. Keeping your present job while searching is
considered a good idea.
However, you are unlikely to be hired to have unlimited resources of
learning but rather to be productive on fairly short notice.
If you are a recent college grad, your college placement office might be
of some help.
What areas of hardware design do you have knowledge of?
del cecchi |
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sdaq
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Fri Feb 11, 2005 12:32 am Post subject:
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I'll just tell you what kind of stuff I've done in college: digital
hardware design with Verilog, synthesis w/synopsys (cadence toolset),
analog/digital circuit analysis with PSpice, semiconductor devices and
analog electronics, signals and systems dsp, structured computer
organization, IA-32 and RISC architectures. I've worked on two team
projects: one where we designed a fast sequential 32-bit signed
multiplier using a parallel modified radix-8 booth recoding technique
and a tree structured CLA adder, and another one where we build a
systolic median filter. until I took this class, I had no idea what I
wanted to do with my life. now, I've seen how awesome working on
hardware design could be and I would really love to do it for a living. |
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Del Cecchi
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Fri Feb 11, 2005 1:02 am Post subject:
Re: In need of some life-changing advice |
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sdaq wrote:
| Quote: | I'll just tell you what kind of stuff I've done in college: digital
hardware design with Verilog, synthesis w/synopsys (cadence toolset),
analog/digital circuit analysis with PSpice, semiconductor devices and
analog electronics, signals and systems dsp, structured computer
organization, IA-32 and RISC architectures. I've worked on two team
projects: one where we designed a fast sequential 32-bit signed
multiplier using a parallel modified radix-8 booth recoding technique
and a tree structured CLA adder, and another one where we build a
systolic median filter. until I took this class, I had no idea what I
wanted to do with my life. now, I've seen how awesome working on
hardware design could be and I would really love to do it for a living.
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Here are some areas with concentrations of technology companies that
might be of interest to you.
Raleigh NC
Several areas of Florida
Austin Texas
Silicon Valley (San Jose, Mt View, et al)
Los Angeles and Orange County area.
San Diego Area
Phoenix, AZ
It seems as if you are looking for an entry level type position. At
least as far as big companies go, it should be fairly straight forward
to search for the names of the companies operating in the cities you are
interested in, and check their web sites for employment information.
Another possibility is companies that are not primarily electronics
companies but use electronics in their processes or products.
google or monster.com or yahoo ought to provide some good data.
I don't think showing up in the lobby looking for a engineering job is
going to get you very far.
del |
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Christoph Hellwig
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Fri Feb 11, 2005 1:08 am Post subject:
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On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:33:04AM -0600, Del Cecchi wrote:
| Quote: | If you pick a job by the weather you will be disappointed. First decide
what you want to do. Then choose among the available opportunities.
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Or select the weather first and then look for a job. I certainly
wouldn't look for job that would require me to move out of the mountains
;-) |
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sdaq
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Fri Feb 11, 2005 2:01 am Post subject:
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thanks for the great list of places. how do you judge which location is
the best? which ones do you like? I personally would love somewhere
close to the beach. I know that in Haifa, Israel, IBM is not more than
5 minutes from the beach, and Intel is literally 2 minutes walking from
the mediterranean sea. |
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mag
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Fri Feb 11, 2005 7:01 am Post subject:
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Interesting that you mention that city. I thought that would be a nice
place to work in the field of SoC or CPU design, indeed. I'm wondering if
knowing French is a plus factor is obtaining work there? Also, do they
actively hire US citizens?
On 2005-02-10 12:31:30 -0700, Alex Colvin <alexc@TheWorld.com> said:
| Quote: | subtly whispering to me: "WEST ... GO WEST...". Sure, there is some
hardware design over here on the east coast, but I am just so freaking
sick of this cold weather. Can anyone offer any advice on making the
move from the east coast to the west coast in hopes of landing that
hardware job of my dreams?
Both Rochesters are west of you.
sounds like yur voice says "SOUTH...GO SOUTH".
how about http://www.sophia-antipolis.net/
-- mac the naïf
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Fri Feb 11, 2005 8:01 am Post subject:
Re: In need of some life-changing advice |
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sdaq wrote:
| Quote: | systolic median filter. until I took this class, I had no idea what I
wanted to do with my life. now, I've seen how awesome working on
hardware design could be and I would really love to do it for a
living. |
Keep in mind that a huge chunk (some people estimate 70%) of hardware
development effort is with verification which means that even if you're
a logic designer you're probably going to be writing tools and have
your nose buried in a testplan (and/or be writing testplan) while doing
QA for a good portion of the design cycle. Really, there's no escaping
software these days. Most PD guys I know even write code on a regular
basis.
Also note that depending on where you work, it's quite possible that
you can encounter the following:
a) in-house design languages
b) in-house simulators
c) in-house testcase generators
d) in-house [whatever you haven't thought of yet, but happens to be a
part of their methodology]
....which you'll have absolutely no experience with. That said, you
might not get to do hardware design right off the bat, so be careful
with what you ask for. Your dream job might entail a longish
probationary period of writing testcode so that you can familiarize
yourself with their design flow.
n.b., Raleigh still experiences winter on occasion and when it does
occur, you'd be amazed to see how a half an inch of snow can be
completely paralyzing--something that causes people up in Rochester
(MN) to laugh hysterically... If you truly hate winter, Austin's a
warmer city.
You might also want to nose around services like this
http://scientific.com/ as they do have hardware placement people on
staff, etc. In the very least their website will give you ideas on how
to get your resume in order.
-Tony |
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Jean-Marc Bourguet
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Fri Feb 11, 2005 8:01 am Post subject:
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mag <mag@SPAMAWAY.NET> writes:
| Quote: | Interesting that you mention that city. I thought that would be a nice
place to work in the field of SoC or CPU design, indeed. I'm wondering if
knowing French is a plus factor is obtaining work there?
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I know people who didn't speak french when they came here. Those who
stay finish by learning french.
| Quote: | Also, do they actively hire US citizens?
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If you don't have a rare profile researched by a company, your best
chance is probably to get hired in the US and then get an internal
move.
Yours,
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Jean-Marc |
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israel t
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Fri Feb 11, 2005 4:29 pm Post subject:
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"sdaq" <orenfromberg@gmail.com> writes:
| Quote: | close to the beach. I know that in Haifa, Israel, IBM is not more than
5 minutes from the beach, and Intel is literally 2 minutes walking from
the mediterranean sea.
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The self-detonating Palestinians might be more of
a problem than the weather in Haifa. |
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Mike
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Fri Feb 11, 2005 8:51 pm Post subject:
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| Quote: | The self-detonating Palestinians might be more of
a problem than the weather in Haifa.
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Maybe if the jews would get off their necks the Palestinians would change
their behavior. |
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