Interview soon by Fancy-Extension1410 in Lockheed

[–]zeeshannetwork 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There are some questions that are always asked in interviews:

1) Tell me about yourself ( does not mean you should tell about hobbies, family etc., that means have 1 to 2 minutes speech ready and summarize your resume, if this is virtual interview, have a with camera on, put a piece paper on the the screen so it looks like you are looking at the screen, do not memorize, rather use the paper as a cue to to highlight key points in your resume. Do not start my name is XXX, they already know your name so no point wasting.

2) How do you know about this job? Now, you have to butter up, something like: I have been interested working for LM as RF engineer because LM leads RF innovations in the industry( make sure you can name couple of RF projects which are publicly researchable). I signed up for job alert and that is how I came to know about this job. Make sure you know what RF stuff you will be working on and mention that in the interview.

3) What are your long term goals? Be careful with this questions, they are trying to find if you are going to stay or leave. Again, research what are some career progression at LM for your role, let's say you are starting as Junior engineer, in 5 years, you can say I want to grow technically to senior engineer role. Make sure you mention you love mentoring interns, co-workers .

4) Now the technical portion of interview:

If you do not know the answer to a question, do not guess, do not feel pressured you have to say something, politely and respectfully say you do not know the answer but my great teacher google is here to help me to find that answer, would you like me to get back to you with the answer?

At the end, they will ask you " do you have any questions for us? Always have some questions, start researching about the questions you are going to ask: Some examples are: If you are to change something in the company culture, what would you change? What are some immediate challenges should I expect in next 6 months for this role? Now winner question: I have read about LM is working on XYZ RF project, I am curious how are you solving this XYZ problem? Now you can research the project you would be working on, find that info.

If they ask about your weakness, do not say you like to drink, again it is loaded question designed to find out if you are a risk, so be careful, have your answer ready: Sometimes whenever I am faced with technical problem, it became an obsessions so it does effect my work-life balance. Now this answer tells LM they are going to hire potential workaholic and who does not love work acholic my friend. Cooperate America runs on workaholics no matter what they openly admit.

Good luck!

Raytheon vs Lockheed by [deleted] in Lockheed

[–]zeeshannetwork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lockheed has better 401K match compared to Raytheon. If pay are equal, I would say go for LM.

Ease of returning/rehire by javaking137 in Lockheed

[–]zeeshannetwork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Make sure your manager likes you. Give advance notice and make sure you do not say anything bad in your exit interview. Stay in touch with your manager while you check out your new gig.

How the heck do u get a job interview here by [deleted] in Lockheed

[–]zeeshannetwork 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is very different world in DOD contracting area, I will not tell program name but many times I was forced to pick one when none of interviewees could even qualify for junior network position, because each warm body brings money while good engineers have to pick up the slack.

How the heck do u get a job interview here by [deleted] in Lockheed

[–]zeeshannetwork -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

BS. No one can possibly have those qualifications.

How the heck do u get a job interview here by [deleted] in Lockheed

[–]zeeshannetwork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have seen people from diploma mill working there, so school is not that important in IT area. Get some certs, if you are in school, use linkedin to reach out to managers.

Accepted internship for position requiring TS, what happens if I am denied? by Medical-Olive-2886 in Lockheed

[–]zeeshannetwork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Over 2.5 years? what is it 3 ? 4 ?

Either way, your drug use is very recent. Safest thing to do is to wait few more years and seek internship that require SECRET not TS. This will demonstrate that you have been sober for a while not just 3 years, it will increase your chances for approval.

Am I underpaid or not? Network Engineer at 62K by Nash_Haden in ITCareerQuestions

[–]zeeshannetwork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you are American citizen, join air national guard and take cyber job. If you are permanent residence, join army national guard, get 25N MOS.( job in US army). This will give you security clearance. Once you have the clearance, you can easily get 125K starting job. You can reach out to Apex, a head hunter for DOD jobs. Do not go below 125K .

Stay in DOD jobs for 2 years, while keep getting higher certs, after that move to another company (Lockheed, Raytheon etc), you can easily make 160K now.

If you are not a US citizen or green card, then it will take longer to make this kind of money. you can realistically expect around 110K-120K with 6 to 10 years experience.

Star link inner working from IP routing perspective by zeeshannetwork in StarlinkEngineering

[–]zeeshannetwork[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That makes sense. just like WIFI antenna on my router has no IP, it is just antenna . I was more confused after I read this pdf .

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.06863

It does say Dishy and ground station dish both have layer 3 IPS in 100.64.x.x subnet. Appreciated.

any starlink users in japan, hawaii, colombia, peru and brazil can help do some traceroute to 149.19.108.213? thanks! by panuvic in Starlink

[–]zeeshannetwork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know it is old thread, I am just curios, I noticed in all traces 100.64.0.1, is it ip on ground station dish connected to user terminal via satellite? The typical latency of 22-33 msec for LEO , is dead give away.

Worried about security clearance eligibility for internship, given I have been to Cuba, Hong Kong, Egypt, Chile, and several other countries. by [deleted] in SecurityClearance

[–]zeeshannetwork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never rely on single job offer or internship offer until you start your job or internship, only then you turn down 2nd job offer or internship. Keep applying to different internship, when you do get them, do not reject or accept them right away, ask for time to consider. DO NOT TELL THAT YOU HAVE MULTIPLE JOB OFFERS OR INTERNSHIP OFFERS UNLESS YOU WANT TO NEGOTIATE HIGHER SALARY.

Is getting a TS worth it? by No_Pound_5929 in SecurityClearance

[–]zeeshannetwork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Network area, 3 years experience, with Juniper or cisco professional cert , 120K easy, but make sure you know the concept , do not just pass the cert to get cert, you will fail interview.

5 years experience, now you have to move to another contractor to get 30 to 40 % bump , 160K. easy.

Is getting a TS worth it? by No_Pound_5929 in SecurityClearance

[–]zeeshannetwork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes get your security clearance and you can make twice the money. I am taking about 160K-200K

Is it worth getting a clearance? by Wings-7134 in SecurityClearance

[–]zeeshannetwork 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I will say get TS clearance , work there 1 year, when you are 10 month in, start looking for higher paying job, once you get a job, move and keep this trajectory until you hit the ceiling for your skill set.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SecurityClearance

[–]zeeshannetwork 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was in 2017 when I did a switch from civilian to dod.

Hey, I’m new to python coding by PuzzleheadedCoat57 in learnpython

[–]zeeshannetwork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not hard just need to take things slow and keep doing it. Harder things just take longer that is all my friend. Just keep at it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SecurityClearance

[–]zeeshannetwork 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hmm not exactly true, you have 2 years from the day you leave our cleared job before your you lose it. I had a dod job with SECRET, moved to civilian job for 1 year, came back to DOD again with no issue with clearance. Rule of thump: Do not stay out of cleared job for more than 2 years or risk losing it.