Re: Looking for PCB layout designer

bigcat_at_meeow.co.uk
Date: 03/28/05 

Date: 28 Mar 2005 09:29:09 -0800

keith wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 18:35:56 -0800, bigcat wrote:
> > Fritz Schlunder wrote:
> >> "keith" <krw@att.bizzzz> wrote in message
> >> news:pan.2005.03.27.17.32.57.791930@att.bizzzz...

> > I agree with Fritz on this one. I was doing multilayer PCBs for a
large
> > company at a young age after about 2 weeks learning the system,
having
> > never used anything like it before. Before that job I only designed
1
> > and 2 layer boards with crepe tape.
>
> Ok, your point is? ...that you weren't qualified for the job?

Sorry, I thought the point was obvious, that it did not take long to
get up to speed on the job.

> > 10 years experience to design pcbs is laughable, and is sure to put
off
> > any employee that has even a glimmer of hope for the future. You
will
> > only get the ones that have no chance of ever doing anything
better,
> > and know it. If you want dead end employees whose work is so bad
no-one
> > will consider promoting them, thats your choice, but if I were a
> > potential employee, your company wouldnt be mine.
>
> My guess is that you've never designed a high-end PCB. Sure, any
phool
> can design at audio frequencies.

This was computer equipment for a large project. It was necessary to
talk with the project engineers to address some issues, thats the price
of lack of experience.

> > If you want your new meployee to stick around for 1 month+, ask for
1
> > months experience in any sit down job, it doesnt matter whether its
pcb
> > design or not.
>
> Bull***. The point was that gardening is a tough job.

Doesnt sound ilke the point to me, but we're entitled to our opinion.s

> They wanted
> people who had done it for a year (after a year they tend to last
longer).
> Engineering work (I hesitate to say that PCB layout is "engineering")
has
> far different set of requirements of its practitioners. I tend to
look at
> "layout" as *BOOORRRING* as landscaping is physically hard work.

of course, and boring sitdown jobs are the same boredom anywhere. The
employee needs to be ok with boring sitdown work, it dosent have to be
boring pcb design work. Its not as bad as that really, but it doesnt
suit everyone.

> The bottom line is that the employer is the one with the hammer.

hammer?

> If you
> don't like it, become the employer.

I have, and do prefer it.

> Until then, I'm not going to cry for
> you.

er, good :) (Im looking kinda puzzlde about that one)

NT

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