Ambient said:That's great lol. I got asked: "Why are manhole covers round?" I managed to list 10 reasons that he liked.
quixotron said:What kind of engineering questions are those?
dknguyen said:They're not. THey're questions that you can't prepare for so that the interviewer can observe your thinking process and not just the facts you can spit out. Of course, there's the more traditional ones like if you had you had 3 balls that looked identical and two weighed this much and the third had some unknown weight, how would you figure out the weight of the unknown ball using a scale (or something like that).
Plus...how often can you get a seriously thought-out response to a question like that?
Ambient said:They are a test of creativity I guess. But they did go over EE topics as well. I am right out of college, and the position was a little higher level than I could get into right away. But they liked me and want me to do some technician work for them, and possibly some worldwide traveling. I will have the second interview with the other owner, wish me luck!
I'll tell you my personal experience with hiring on as a technician. I have a good friend who was fresh out of college with an EE degree. He really wanted to work for the company I was working for, but the only opening they had was for a technician - at technician's pay. He took it, thinking they would promote him as soon as an opening arose. Well,after a year or so, an engineering position opened up, and he applied for it. They offered it to him, but a salary that was only slightly more than he was currently making. "Oh, we could never give anyone a 25% raise!" He quit. I told the company managers that if another guy walked in, with his resume, they would look at it and say, "My God! This guy has the exact experience we need!" And they would be happy to pay him an engineer's salary. It fell on deaf ears.Ambient said:They are a test of creativity I guess. But they did go over EE topics as well. I am right out of college, and the position was a little higher level than I could get into right away. But they liked me and want me to do some technician work for them, and possibly some worldwide traveling. I will have the second interview with the other owner, wish me luck!
You probably won't have a problem. The company I was working for was big - around 80-100 employees.Ambient said:Thanks guys. Lots of great advice. I will be doing some praying for sure. Half of it will be for just getting there without getting killed. People in my state suck at driving.
Hopefully I don't get stuck in it, but I was planning on starting my own company at one point anyways. At the moment I will take the first job that comes my way lol. My grades were not stellar, as I was more of a hands on type of learner in a not so hands-on school. I got nervous and would forget things that I knew in a test. In the lab I was the guy people came to for help. Before a test, I went to them lol. Hopefully I will have better luck than your buddy, Roff. This is a small company (9-10), so I shouldn't have a problem with people ignoring my value like in a large company.
quixotron said:Good luck. And if you will, allow me to impart onto you some advice.
4: kiss your bosses @$$. work extra hard for him, stay late at work to please someone if they ask or want it and do whatever they tell you to do with a smile.
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Roff said:Before my friend could find another job, the company had an opening in Amsterdam for a sales/service engineer. He took it, and almost went crazy for a couple of years. He didn't speak Dutch,
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That's very true, and he mentioned that at the time, but the language barrier was still significant. Also, this was 40 years ago. I don't know if English was as pervasive then as it is now.rjvh said:but everybody in Holland speaks english on an acseptable level
I do know cause Iam Dutch
Robert-Jan
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