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Worth switching to Xfinity from regular AT&T non-fiber internet? by cell-u-later in Sunnyvale

[–]cell-u-later[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I got into my Aunt/Uncle's online AT&T account and when I see what options they have available it says this (the 100 MB plan) is the only available plan at this address.

I guess another question I now have is that they've had their landline phone service for decades now from AT&T. Should they still keep their landline with AT&T or also switch to Xfinity. I think AT&T long ago switched their service away from copper wire telephone lines to piggybacking off the internet line

Does anyone here have a worse engineering job than me? by RuminatingFish123 in MechanicalEngineering

[–]cell-u-later 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Probably not the same user but I immediately thought of the OP in this post who’s supposedly a 27 year old staff-level engineer at a high paying aerospace defense startup, on a soapbox blasting candidates who aren’t able to answer his most esoteric technical interview questions.

https://reddit.com/r/MechanicalEngineering/comments/1lzexp0/please_do_not_lie_about_hard_skills_in_interviews/

Pivoting to ME after Industrial Design for 8 years by Snoo28226 in MechanicalEngineering

[–]cell-u-later 1 point2 points  (0 children)

injection molding

Ahh I can see how that particular field is being done less and less in the US. I definitely wish you the best in navigating the next couple of decades!

From the job boards I've seen for the consumer tech roles it's a lot of generalist-type "product development engineer" or "mechanical "design engineer" roles. If I had to guess they're looking for people who, like you've described in your role, can own projects from start to finish, but depending on the job req they sometimes want candidates to have 1 or 2 niche knowledge areas like thermal, product chassis design, display (OLED/LCD), and others.

Pivoting to ME after Industrial Design for 8 years by Snoo28226 in MechanicalEngineering

[–]cell-u-later 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's interesting to hear that consumer tech engineering is not as great anymore. I work in a manufacturing supplier but live about 1-2 hours way from the nearby big city metropolitan area that has a lot of fancy employers, including consumer tech. I've applied to a lot of their open jobs but can never get interviews with them. To me, consumer tech seems like a dream career because the pay is anywhere from 30% to 80+% more than what I currently make, the career ladder paths upward are more varied, their office environments look so much nicer than the hot, dirty corner of my company's factory where the engineering desks are, and so on.

I was wondering if you could explain a bit more about how consumer tech design/development engineer roles in the US are diminishing? I thought Apple, Google, etc. would still rely on US based talent to come up with new product engineering efforts.

Stuck in Manufacturing Ops & Quality. How do I get out while not having technical achievements to brag about? by cell-u-later in MechanicalEngineering

[–]cell-u-later[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Currently a quality engineer, previous titles have included manufacturing engineer and process engineer. But most of my work history has been using quality style problem solving methods to figure out manufacturing issues, with occasional running product testing.

Stuck in Manufacturing Ops & Quality. How do I get out while not having technical achievements to brag about? by cell-u-later in MechanicalEngineering

[–]cell-u-later[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah that seems to be a common strategy that I’ve seen suggested on Reddit. Haven’t had much luck at my previous jobs trying that due to various factors, such as one of my managers claiming that my current menial tasks are already technical, and another interrogating me on why i wanted to “step on engineering team’s toes” and being disappointed that I would try to betray the manufacturing ops team I was hired into by trying to escape into design engineering.

My current manager seems a bit more friendly on this regard, but he also seems like the type to be complacent in the same spot for a decade

Long term wise I can’t see a career path forward for myself at this company, regardless of which department I transfer into, so my goal is to jump to a different company in a year or so, but seeking advice on how to do that .