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AntiriadElectronics

Jan 1, 1970
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Hi All,

Pardon me because this is off-topic, but it is important. I have been asked
to move with my company to San Diego California, and I need some reference
point to compare what they are offering. Can anyone tell me:

- What ballpark base salary (before benefits and 401(k)) should a
Computer/Electronics engineer with about 5 years experience and detailed
product knowledge for a product support / technical sales role expect (in
EDA market).
- What ballpark (if different from above) would a *Senior* Application
Engineer with a proven customer service and communication track record
expect?

I have experience in FPGA/Embedded and PCB design at a systems level, with
reasonable coding ability in C and VHDL.

Thanks for any advice you may give - I appreciate it!

(Anonymity may be required on my part, so forgive me for not stating my
name)
 
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JeffM

Jan 1, 1970
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I have been asked to move with my company to San Diego California,
AntiriadElectronics

If you are going to post the same question to multiple groups,
http://groups-beta.google.com/group...tFaDusDwEs_HCBLxTLalqSMXTw3V1I5Wzp9OxuVAVn4iI
put ALL the groups on the Groups line
the 1st (and only) time you post the question.

This is called cross-posting.
It lets everybody see all the responses.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/sci.electronics.design/browse_frm/thread/fd78c89ed4edb9b2
 
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AntiriadElectronics

Jan 1, 1970
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Thanks for the advice. I don't usually spend much time on newsgroups :-$
 
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Richard Kanarek

Jan 1, 1970
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JeffM,

Actually, top posting is the way posters who value the time of their
readers post. Making a poor reader wade through reams of prattle in
order to get to the new prattle is as discourteous as it is
inefficient.

Cordially,
Richard Kanarek

To the original poster: If you knew anything about my employment
history, you'd be glad that I'm not offering you advice. <g> Still, if
you're moving on the behest of your employer, I'd think that the
employment situation of your new local is of little importance. Good
luck in any case!
 
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Charlie Edmondson

Jan 1, 1970
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AntiriadElectronics said:
Hi All,

Pardon me because this is off-topic, but it is important. I have been asked
to move with my company to San Diego California, and I need some reference
point to compare what they are offering. Can anyone tell me:

- What ballpark base salary (before benefits and 401(k)) should a
Computer/Electronics engineer with about 5 years experience and detailed
product knowledge for a product support / technical sales role expect (in
EDA market).
- What ballpark (if different from above) would a *Senior* Application
Engineer with a proven customer service and communication track record
expect?

I have experience in FPGA/Embedded and PCB design at a systems level, with
reasonable coding ability in C and VHDL.

Thanks for any advice you may give - I appreciate it!

(Anonymity may be required on my part, so forgive me for not stating my
name)
I guess I should answer this, but I don't have a lot of data for you. I
don't know Altium's pay scales, and I don't want to get too nosy with my
contacts down there... :cool:

As a general ballpark, for a 5y veteran, I would expect something in the
high 50s' to low 60s'. For the Senior AE, add 10-15K to that. However,
I have fairly high expectations...

Charlie
 
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Jim Thompson

Jan 1, 1970
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On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 09:15:39 -0700, Charlie Edmondson

[snip]
I guess I should answer this, but I don't have a lot of data for you. I
don't know Altium's pay scales, and I don't want to get too nosy with my
contacts down there... :cool:

As a general ballpark, for a 5y veteran, I would expect something in the
high 50s' to low 60s'. For the Senior AE, add 10-15K to that. However,
I have fairly high expectations...

Charlie

Higher ;-)

...Jim Thompson
 
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JeffM

Jan 1, 1970
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Thanks for the advice. I don't usually spend much time on newsgroups :-$
Actually, top posting is the way posters
who value the time of their readers post.
Richard Kanarek
Nope.
..
..
Making a poor reader wade through reams of prattle
in order to get to the new prattle
is as discourteous as it is inefficient.

I'm just fascinated by people who think
that conventions for ways of doing things are arbitrary.
Systems evolve by finding what works best
and disgarding what is inferior.[1]

A post should read like a conversation or a narrative
--not like some movie that jumps forward and back in time.

I agree with your *reams of prattle* point.
From the document I cited (RFC1855):
"If you are sending a reply to a message or a posting
be sure you **summarize** the original **at the top of the message,**
or include **just enough text of the original to give a context.**"

IMO, your *who value the time of their readers* comment
applies more to those who repost the entire previous comment
without editing out bulk which is unnecessary for context.

Just as with a book,
the reader should feel free to skip to the end of a post.
The greater-than notation was developed to make that easy.
..
..
[1]There's always some iconoclast who thiks the traditions suck
and, as always, the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Inferior methodologies are rejected en mass.
 
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Joerg

Jan 1, 1970
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Hello Charlie,
As a general ballpark, for a 5y veteran, I would expect something in the
high 50s' to low 60s'. For the Senior AE, add 10-15K to that. However,
I have fairly high expectations...

One has to seriously consider the cost of housing. In San Diego that
isn't exactly on the cheap side. For example someone moving from Texas
to California for 20% more pay could be mighty disappointed that a home
that was 150k in Texas may run north of half a million in some areas.
The property taxes will be accordingly. That can more than erode any pay
advantage. Also, we have state income taxes :-(

I believe there is a book that details much of that data for each metro
area. "Places Rated" or something like that.

Regards, Joerg
 
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Chuck Harris

Jan 1, 1970
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.
[1]There's always some iconoclast who thiks the traditions suck
and, as always, the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Inferior methodologies are rejected en mass.

Anyone who was around when this mess called usenet started (such
as me) would tell you that the original convention, after the advent of
quoting, was to top post.

The assumption was that top posting was most courteous as it saved
the reader from downloading, and wading through, the entire quoted
text before finding out what was new... Something that was rather
important when modems worked at 300 baud. Back then, the act of
quoting text was considered wasteful, and if you did it, it had better
have been for a really good reason.

If a lot of text needed comment, the next preference was to inject
comments into the text, as the text went along.

Bottom posting back then would get you a swift kick in the butt
(and thus began the top posting vs bottom posting wars).

Today, many of the reasons for top posting have been alleviated by
fast internet connections, and large amounts of storage space, but
one still exists, and IMHO should apply, and that is the case of short.
topical comments. If they contain all of the necessary information,
to be a complete, self contained comment on the thread, they should
be at the top.... Of course, if the comment is complete and self contained,
there is really no need to quote much of the article.

Me, I don't really care what all you newbies do, but it does frost my
cake when you pronounce from a position of ignorance that bottom
posting is a "tradition", when there was 20 years of internet use before
the web was invented, and bottom posting became popular.

Dad-gum-whippersnappers!

-Chuck
 
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JeffM

Jan 1, 1970
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if the comment is complete and self contained,
there is really no need to quote much of the article.
Here we agree
--and the whole top/bottom thing is secondary to this
(and the corollary: trim for minimum necessary context).
..
..
Anyone who was around when this mess called usenet started
(such as me) would tell you that the original convention,
after the advent of quoting, was to top post.
Chuck Harris
Did your 1st newsreader
automatically blockquote the whole damned previous post?
IMO that's where the bigger problem lies:
Clueless folks who think the machine should do the thinking for them
and who won't trim the fat.
..
..
it does frost my cake when you pronounce from a position of ignorance
that bottom posting is a "tradition",
when there was 20 years of internet use
before the web was invented, and bottom posting became popular.
Dad-gum-whippersnappers!
Watch that pulse rate, Old Timer. :cool:
 
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Chuck Harris

Jan 1, 1970
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JeffM said:
Did your 1st newsreader
automatically blockquote the whole damned previous post?

The first news reader did not quote at all. But it did allow you to
include a file. So what was done (by the highly motivated), was to
include the previous post into the news reader's editor (ed), add your
own comments and messages and then post. It was up to the
poster to decide when and where his comments would appear.

Later versions would automatically quote the entire article into the
news reader's editor (usually ed), and again, it was up to the poster
to decide what the final article would look like.

But my point was that it was such a pain to wade through large
quotes that any comment made on the whole of the note was always
placed on top. This worked under the assumption that anyone
following the thread would know what it was about, and if they
didn't, they could take a peek at the "foot notes", just as you would
with a scholarly journal.
IMO that's where the bigger problem lies:
Clueless folks who think the machine should do the thinking for them
and who won't trim the fat.

Agreed. A very big problem with top posting happens when the
poster just automatically quotes the entire article he is commenting
on. The quotes at the tail of the article can grow and grow without
notice.

I use, as a general practice, a single screen as my maximum quote when
I top post. But I frequently accede to the wishes of the group and just
follow whatever convention they are using.
.
.


Watch that pulse rate, Old Timer. :cool:

Pulse is doing fine, thank you.

-Chuck Dad-blam-it!
 
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