Many says if you stayed in CE for more than 3 yrs, your career is done. I would like to know if there people who stayed in CE for more than 3 yrs and able to get real job outside ? How hard was it?
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Don’t worry guys! There is always work for good CE (c*ck ejaculator) engineer. Big demand for this in San Francisco Bay Area.
"Did that guy with a red stapler on that movie work in CE? The one with people skills that talked to the customers."
Yeah, great film. It's called "Office Space". Do you remember that the main character, who was trying to be laid off and turned up in the afternoon in slippers, he was actually promoted instead ...
what's IPS?
I hope Donald Trump issues executive order to merge CE department with INT or MST. Btw, MST is also a dirty swimming pool with many big fat jobless managers and directors sitting for a long time.
“Pushing work off to others. Writing useless documents, making outrageous promises to customers, and calling endless meetings”
You’ve described how one gets promoted in CE. If you’ve been to any CE perf review meeting, you’ll agree with this
If you have the right skill set you should be fine. Keep in mind , most companies expect you to complete the work you’re assigned, so no pushing off to others. Writing useless documents, making outrageous promises to customers, and calling endless meetings aren’t skills most companies value in their engineers.
Dude you must got fced up by CE engineers & your lead for not running the same exact test case which became the release blocker for customer.
Do your job right & don’t worry what other teams do to make sure customers can release there products right on time with minimum bugs.
Now get back to real testing & stop filling your tracker with false “pass”.
If you put CE engineer on your resume, you’ll get lots of interest from top companies like Google and Facebook. They really value your skill set, of collecting staus and email it out to a large audience
Did that guy with a red stapler on that movie work in CE? The one with people skills that talked to the customers.
CE doesn't need engineering degree. High school diploma is more than enough. Qualcomm CE team was way too big comparing the rest of industry that is joke.
ex-CE here. Being in CE was not an issue for me. I believe it would not be as long as you have right skill set and relevant experience. But its hard to get these days since CE becomes more and more interface layer only. I saw the change that DEV teams are taking over old CE roles because they have no place to grow.
CE here. Got multiple interview offers from the companies I support. Plus multiple semiconductor companies are hiring application engineers. You know, the job CE would do if your company didn’t have to carry around IPS like a dead siameze twin?
Dont worry... CE is another important role. there are some stupid idiots who try to put it down.