We're off on another tangent here, but not all companies use the "Burn
'em and Turn 'em" philosophies.
In my working days, I spent6 literally thousands of hours rewriting code
written by people who were ne4ither CS, or CIS educated. Much of it was
excellent code, but difficult to read for a professional, and impossible
other engineers to read.
Most, or I should emphasize "almost all" programs you have, you ONLY
purchased the "license" to use that code. In most cases you are
prohibited from reverse engineering, decompiling, or MODIFYING that
code. Read those, sometimes many pages of fine print, in the license to
see what you can legally do with and/or to that software. Don't forget,
"look and feel" of that software also belong to the software owner.
Often the restrictions are not because of monetary reasons, but are for
the protection of the software and programmer's reputation. Typically
you need to contact either the software owner and/or programmer
Modeling is not necessarily difficult, or expensive, depending on the
known and unknown variables as well as any assumptions and the level of
accuracy required. Many times you are working with probabilities rather
than fixed quantities. Propagation and desired antenna heights in
wavelengths to get the strongest signal into an area vary continually.
The normal, desired antenna height under normal conditions are when
conditions favor that height and distance the highest percent of time.
Hence the reason for stacks and diversity reception.
I have more computing power (capacity, speed, and storage) on (or under)
this desk than the entire corporation had, that I worked for in 1997 and
we had a lot!
I was in the workforce for over 26 years, quit, earned a degree and went
back to work. There are few my age with 4 year degrees in CS
73
Roger (K8RI)
On 7/15/2016 Friday 10:26 AM, Earl Morse wrote:
If given these opportunities for real education (not that crap education that
HR requires you to take so you can be politically correct or remember to wear
your safety glasses) jump on them.
There is a big push to model everything these days (virtual engineering), and
if you have been in the work force for 25 years then you probably don't have
those skills from your college days. We hadn't invented a personal computer
yet that would run modelling software when I was in college. I have yet to
have an employer send me out to learn any of the modelling tools. Good thing I
have some of my own and have modeled my own stuff because of this hobby. Still
would be nice if I had some formal training and access to the multi kilobuck
tools.
Funny how the guys that modeled all this stuff up front disappear after the
prototypes show up and the real performance doesn't match the model. That's
when my phone rings and we have to go back to how we used to do it in order to
get the product into production.
I agree with Hans that many companies treat engineers as cannon fodder. My current
company thinks that you can write a process and any nimrod can follow it and end up with
a functioning product at the end. Unfortunately, there seem to be a few blocks in that
flow chart that say "Magic Happens".
I have been fortunate in my career managing to stay at companies for 5+ years
before jumping ship. Catching the last life boat to a new company. Those
changes were usually facilitated by a changing business structure (computer
industry). Making yourself indispensable (not by being responsible for the
bathroom key) but by being knowledgeable and can-do will help ensure you land
on your feet during corporate changes.
Earl
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Currently, the company is systematically offering educational opportunities to
all employees and paying for it. ?Further, they are mandating it, so that they
can leverage the vast pools of existing domain knowledge as it evolves into an
increasingly software and data-driven world. ?It is both good for the business
as well as for the employees, but it is, as you inferred, not as pervasive a
personnel approach as we all might like.
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