Job Responsibilities
20% Troubleshooting with customers,
30% Design-in and qualification of new semiconductor components,
20% Specifying new product,
10% internal administration,
10% Presentations, visits of conferences, exhibitions...
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Uppers
Supporting customers for their sake---and later reap the benefitsby their
confidence.
Designing-in new parts and helping toeards better customer systems
Being honored by a customer.
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Downers
Colleagues not admitting that ideas are great but using them;
immediately under their own label; Bueaucratic administrative spreadsheets to be
filled-in;
A layer of basically useless, non-creative caretakers without any
background know-how--those who want the lists filled in.
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Lifestyle
Work hours (have remote home office) are from 7 am to 9 pm or so.
Saturdays and Sundays only 80% of workday hours.
But take vacation time in full--punishment are 800 + mails after 4 weeks of
absence. Business travel about 15% of the time.
Company social events after meetings, after exhibitions and--since we are in
Germany--a week before that holy Christmas.
Dress code internally very casual, externally siuit and tie.
A mass tailored suit from Bali though, does the job--for 70$ US.
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Compensation
Yearly in Euro:
Base salary 120k, Bonus around 20K.
Stock options still way under water from 2000 crash.
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Advice to Jobseekers
The initial glamour of the semiconductor industry (the 70ies, for
example)is out to a large degree. Nevertheless, it still is an
enticing plaster. With the real personalities (by technology
achievment and by leadership)being retired or even under the
earth, more streamlined, exchangeable people populate the pay
rolls.
But utmost flexibility and no arrogance at all is at order.
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