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We have had a good quarter, and we are expanding. We have a significant number of openings for qualified people with strong IT background. We also have a number of openings for sr managers, director level in sales, engineering support, and program mgmt.

You will need to be well qualified with a min of a BS in engineering or a BS in a related science. For the mgmt/dir positions, a BA required and MA, MBA, MS highly desirable in a related field. Also need proven track record of capability.

Most jobs are in Silicon Valley, some will be in other parts of the country, and we pay rather well, with all benes and it's just a real nice place to work.

Inquire by PM with email so we can chat before I put your hat in the hopper. If you don't have the qualifications, we have a few internships coming up, and I would be happy to discuss those as well, but they are not for slackers. These are jobs where you will WORK for your internship pay.
 
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I can add 2 and 2 and get 5 sometimes, 4 most of the time, and 3 on occasion...have ya got any accounting positions?
 
Clark1961 said:
I can add 2 and 2 and get 5 sometimes, 4 most of the time, and 3 on occasion...have ya got any accounting positions?
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2+2=5 for extremely high values of 2 and/or extremely low values of 5
 
Will I get in trouble for posting on POA during working hours?

I am expensive but I have good character and do mediocre work.
 
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SixPapaCharlie said:
Will I get in trouble for posting on POA during working hours?

I am expensive but I have good character and do mediocre work.
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We do have a monitoring applet on your corp laptop, which I can defeat with a few keystrokes.

If we were looking for accountants, the 2+2=5 people would be in demand. But - no....
 
this is an interesting approach, looking for "well qualified" + "managers". I personally haven't worked for one of those.
 
It's the "work" part that keeps me from applying. I've had enough of that to last a lifetime. Besides, my IT days ended back when we still used COBOL. Wait, we still use COBOL here.
 
Don't meet the qualifications.
 
jesse said:
Don't meet the qualifications.
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I know.

18+ years of experience, but without a piece of paper that only means you were able to sit through 4 years of classes, you're worthless.
 
EdFred said:
I know.

18+ years of experience, but without a piece of paper that only means you were able to sit through 4 years of classes, you're worthless.
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I'm not worthless to those I'd want to work for. These days, if I were to ever make a job change, I'd be interviewing the employer that approached me more so than they'd be interviewing me.
 
EdFred said:
I know.

18+ years of experience, but without a piece of paper that only means you were able to sit through 4 years of classes, you're worthless.
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Having spent the first 15 years of my SW Engineering career in just that boat, it frustrates me. I did finally get my BSCS degree but now that I'm CTO I insist that we include the phrase "or equivalent experience" in our job postings and mean it. Many of our government contracts specify grade level requirements, but even those generally have a "y degree or x years" phrase.

John
 
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jsstevens said:
Having spent the first 15 years of my SW Engineering career in just that boat, it frustrates me. I did finally get my BSCS degree but now that I'm CTO I insist that we include the phrase "or equivalent experience" in our job postings and mean it. Many of our government contracts specify grade level requirements, but even those generally have a "y degree or x years" phrase.

John
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The best part is when you get the hot shots out of school that have zero idea how things in the real world actually work. Then you have to waste 4 more years on having them unlearn what they "learned." Give me the people with experience all day, every day. They also tend to be less entitled that a snot nosed brat whose mommy and daddy paid for their party degree.
 
jesse said:
I'm not worthless to those I'd want to work for. These days, if I were to ever make a job change, I'd be interviewing the employer that approached me more so than they'd be interviewing me.
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That's the way it should be. I try to tell that to people that interview here for a job, but I don't think I get through to them. If they accept a job and then determine they hate it, we both lose. They should try to determine that when they interview me.
 
EdFred said:
... without a piece of paper that only means you were able to sit through 4 years of classes, you're worthless.
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That's for you old people. A lot of kids today are sitting through 6-7 years of classes to get a bachelors. So that makes them a lot smarter than you guys who only sat through 4 years. :)
 
EdFred said:
The best part is when you get the hot shots out of school that have zero idea how things in the real world actually work. Then you have to waste 4 more years on having them unlearn what they "learned." Give me the people with experience all day, every day. They also tend to be less entitled that a snot nosed brat whose mommy and daddy paid for their party degree.
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In our business, as long as they don't think they know it all (which is a different problem) it doesn't take more than a few months to get them quite productive. But we have them surrounded by lots of engineers who are both experienced and educated that will (good naturedly) whack 'em up side of the head (metaphorically) if they're screwing up. We call it mentoring. And I try to hire interns (paid) as juniors or seniors if they can already program their way out of a paper bag and get them on the right path. It's worked quite well. But our interview process is tough. Very tough (even for interns). By design.

And, like you, I'll take experienced over educated all else being equal.

John
 
I'm starting to look for a new job again and as such I think my list of requirements is getting longer than the job positions I apply for. Part of it is having enough experience to do that and part of it is intolerance of working for 'dumb' employers because as mentioned above it does no one any good if I want to leave after 3 months because it's a bad fit.
 
jesse said:
The only letters I'll ever have are "CFI".
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Yea, they don't mean much unless you are working for a consulting company, then they get played up as "experience, knowledge, & qualification". In reality, I knew the same before & after taking the certification exams. But they do open some doors...

The Certified Scrum Master (CSM) class counted as continuing ed for the PMP. Then it was simply a matter of taking an online exam and BOOM! I'm a CSM!
 
Gerhardt said:
That's for you old people. A lot of kids today are sitting through 6-7 years of classes to get a bachelors. So that makes them a lot smarter than you guys who only sat through 4 years. :)
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2 years for me, while working full time.
 
Last year I added TOWG to my work email sig ...

so far nobody's asked me what that is.
 
jesse said:
What are you really testing with that? I would consider someone scoring VERY well on that test being basically the minimal level of computer competency to be a receptionist at a tech firm.
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Or a "power user" at a non tech firm. I manage IT at a non-tech firm. The challenges are different.
 
I created the acronym after meeting the rest of the DBA group that I was being absorbed into - surrounded by many, much younger, multi-ethnic group of folks to whom English was a second or third language ... where it struck me that I was the Token Old White Guy.

It did make me chuckle that the one guy I had the least difficulty understanding was in Dublin, Ireland.
 
At a minimum, I'd require a CS undergrad degree just to get through HR. A degree in information systems is worse than no degree though. I'd likely miss out on a few good candidates but 15 years of experience at this game put the odds in my favor on not wasting my time.

When you've learned to prove shortest path algorithms correct, can apply calculus and linear algebra to real world problems, have build your own 5 stage pipeline burst processor starting with K-Maps and Boolean algebra, learned to build artificial neural networks and train them, have written your own scripting language and assembler etc... You're in. Now I'm sure there's some self taught people who've done similar things but they're a needle in a haystack and all that stuff preps you for some creative problem solving above and beyond knowing what an "if" statement is.
 
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For those of you complaining about the BS/BA degree - and whom don't have one, I will give your exasperation all the consideration it deserves.

I'll defend the degree to a certain extent. For me, it shows that a young person can dedicate 4-5 years to a program and see it through. Not just that, but pretty much every college graduate I've helped hire has shown a well-roundedness and wider range of interests than the non-degreed people who would otherwise be qualified.

If you think you meet or exceed all the other qualifications except the BS/BA degree, you can send me a note, and I can look at your CV to check if it might make it through. We've hired non-degree people in management, but I would like you to understand that a manager will be supervising highly technical degreed engineers. For anyone that's been in the armed forces, and had a shave-tail ensign, or butter-bar louie, you understand I think that while they certainly lack real world experience, they are still the boss, and the system works pretty well in most cases. For the director level positions, the degree requirements are not able to be waived.

Thanks
 
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If you have anything in Houston, I'd be interested, but I have no desire to relocate!
 
jesse said:
What are you really testing with that? I would consider someone scoring VERY well on that test being basically the minimal level of computer competency to be a receptionist at a tech firm.
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Yep. It was a tongue-in-cheek recommendation. I've never run across any "test" for IT that was valid in any way.
 
AuntPeggy said:
Yep. It was a tongue-in-cheek recommendation. I've never run across any "test" for IT that was valid in any way.
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I'm on the exam writing team for certifications on several products. We have to change them almost annually to keep current on technology, and of course - we are never really current, just modestly behind.

Most people in IT at the top levels can figure out with a few dozen questions if the candidate is remotely qualified. I do tech interviews and the first and easiest question is to have someone explain a MAC address. If they start to describe an IP(like 192.168.1.1, happens more than one would think) it's a really short interview.
 
So... if I give you a dissertation about how the MAC address is like a cards serial number, stored on an ePROM, while an IP is a dynamic value assigned for routing, and then went on to provide the example of a Mode C transponder having a unique ID registered with the FAA while the squawk is changeable dependent on the airspace it is in I would pass that one?

I do know that MACs are a series of couplets separated by colons (:) but I don't know how they are derived. I might look that up for fun. The IP routing schema I remember a little about, but it's been forever and a day since I set one up. Usually I just call and tell them which subnet I appear to be in and ask if that's the issue with routing to the server I'm trying to hit. I know 169 is a lyncsys default and no one with a clue uses it. 10.10.100.1 is so much nicer for the home networking crowd.
 
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