Job experience? How?
in [FPGA]
|
Prev: Free Live Voice and Video Chat!Connect with Over 4 Million Members download now
Next: How good are Actel tools
From: luudee on 3 Jun 2010 03:45 On Jun 3, 2:23 am, "Socrates" <socconf(a)n_o_s_p_a_m.gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I am a third year student, but interested in FPGAs and linking my future > with this area of electronics. To have a point of view of my future, I've > browsed some job search pages using "FPGA" in search field. However almost > all of the offers are for "FPGA seniors", experience not less that ~5 > years. How can I gain this experience if it is almost impossible to get > employed? > > FPGA course in my uni is only on major degree studies, so I am doing a > "self-education" and learning FPGA design by myself, however PACMAN > implementation or something like that only gives experience on the syntax > itself, but not the real problems encountered every day. I have some > opinions: > - Search for intern programs at various companies that use FPGAs (its also > very hard to find, because many companies ask if You are eligible to work > in USA. If not - chances are minimum (I am from Lithuania, EU)). > - Try to find a job when you get paid by pay-per-module (however, I did not > find anything like this). > - The last chance I think I could do is to contact the company itself, ask > for the ability to work for free, since I need experience and if everything > goes OK, maybe they will employ me in the future. But how long the student > could work qualitatively without being paid if the task is really hard and > takes a long time? The result could end up with nothing: no experience and > no work done. > > Tell me Your opinions :) > > --------------------------------------- > Posted throughhttp://www.FPGARelated.com A good jumping stone is www.opencores.org. Publish your work there, and may be somebody will like what you do and hire you. When we hire fresh grads, we always ask for samples of their work. You have to also try to understand where companies come from. Lots of grads are absolutely clueless. Often times to a point that is is scary. They do the course work, but can't think outside the box they have studied. That makes it very tough for companies. You seem to be more advanced. Show people what you can do, and I am sure you won't have a problem finding a job. Cheers, rudi
From: Socrates on 3 Jun 2010 12:01 >A good jumping stone is www.opencores.org. Publish your work there, >and may be somebody will like what you do and hire you. > >When we hire fresh grads, we always ask for samples of their work. > >You have to also try to understand where companies come from. >Lots of grads are absolutely clueless. Often times to a point that >is is scary. They do the course work, but can't think outside the >box they have studied. That makes it very tough for companies. > >You seem to be more advanced. Show people what you can do, >and I am sure you won't have a problem finding a job. > >Cheers, >rudi > So it is worth to show my projects on various sites, then add links to my resume? Actually its interesting if the employer will take a look or not :) What about internships in various companies? For example if such a company like Siemens offers an internship, but that is not related to FPGAs, is it worth of spending a year in that company? It will be one year wasted for FPGA experience, but on the other hand experience in huge company is also interesting. Which one weights more on the employment scales? --------------------------------------- Posted through http://www.FPGARelated.com
From: Rob Gaddi on 3 Jun 2010 12:10 On 6/3/2010 9:01 AM, Socrates wrote: >> A good jumping stone is www.opencores.org. Publish your work there, >> and may be somebody will like what you do and hire you. >> >> When we hire fresh grads, we always ask for samples of their work. >> >> You have to also try to understand where companies come from. >> Lots of grads are absolutely clueless. Often times to a point that >> is is scary. They do the course work, but can't think outside the >> box they have studied. That makes it very tough for companies. >> >> You seem to be more advanced. Show people what you can do, >> and I am sure you won't have a problem finding a job. >> >> Cheers, >> rudi >> > > So it is worth to show my projects on various sites, then add links to my > resume? Actually its interesting if the employer will take a look or not :) > What about internships in various companies? For example if such a company > like Siemens offers an internship, but that is not related to FPGAs, is it > worth of spending a year in that company? It will be one year wasted for > FPGA experience, but on the other hand experience in huge company is also > interesting. Which one weights more on the employment scales? > > --------------------------------------- > Posted through http://www.FPGARelated.com I'd never hire anyone who says "I know FPGAs and that's it." All engineering experience translates, as does anything that causes you to think. I've worked on DC/DC converter circuits that were best understood by analogy to a mechanical transmission. As a bare minimum you'll be an infinitely better FPGA designer if you've got the foggiest clue of what the rest of the circuit is doing. If you're offered an internship in any engineering field, take it. Experience is always better than none. -- Rob Gaddi, Highland Technology Email address is currently out of order
From: Socrates on 3 Jun 2010 12:43 >I'd never hire anyone who says "I know FPGAs and that's it." All >engineering experience translates, as does anything that causes you to >think. I've worked on DC/DC converter circuits that were best >understood by analogy to a mechanical transmission. As a bare minimum >you'll be an infinitely better FPGA designer if you've got the foggiest >clue of what the rest of the circuit is doing. > >If you're offered an internship in any engineering field, take it. >Experience is always better than none. > >-- >Rob Gaddi, Highland Technology >Email address is currently out of order > Ok, thanks for everyone, I have a good point of view now :) --------------------------------------- Posted through http://www.FPGARelated.com
From: Nico Coesel on 3 Jun 2010 13:00
"Socrates" <socconf(a)n_o_s_p_a_m.gmail.com> wrote: >Hello, >I am a third year student, but interested in FPGAs and linking my future >with this area of electronics. To have a point of view of my future, I've >browsed some job search pages using "FPGA" in search field. However almost >all of the offers are for "FPGA seniors", experience not less that ~5 >years. How can I gain this experience if it is almost impossible to get >employed? Do some sensible hobby projects. If your projects have enough body they will make up for a lot of experience. -- Failure does not prove something is impossible, failure simply indicates you are not using the right tools... nico(a)nctdevpuntnl (punt=.) -------------------------------------------------------------- |