Basic Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related technical focus. • Experience in COMM and Navigation. • Avionics experience • Experience with aircraft operations. • Microsoft Office I love the MS Office req at the end. "Yes, we see you've got a BS in engineering, you're an expert at avionics and COMM control systems, but do you know anything about MS Word?"
More like: "We ended up hiring the guy most competent at MS Word at the expense of everything else, because out of the five requirements it was the only one the managers doing the interview knew anything about". "Johnson! We're promoting you to head technical flight operations. We can't believe the level of your MS Word skills!" "Senator, we have no idea why the F-22 inexplicably crashed. That software was designed b…
Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22
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Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're reading the job description all wrong...you've got to think like a hiring manager in the defense industry to make any sense of it, i.e. reverse qualification priorities and the actual job you'll be hired to perform will become crystal clear.
AS a Systems Engineer in the Defense industry I completely agree. It is only because we talk about a maintenance role that DOORS doesn’t come on the list with Word.
I'll bite. What is DOORS and how can I specialize in it to put my skills in high demand?
Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22
#63Basic Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related technical focus. • Experience in COMM and Navigation. • Avionics experience • Experience with aircraft operations. • Microsoft Office I love the MS Office req at the end. "Yes, we see you've got a BS in engineering, you're an expert at avionics and COMM control systems, but do you know anything about MS Word?"
They are probably just sick of having photos in documents that have been stretched horizontally, or documents with bloody manually created tables of contents because the last person didn't know how to use heading styles.
>twitch<
Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22
#64ISTR that the avionics code is written in Ada, and runs on top of Intel i960 processors, and that the Ada compiler for that target only runs on VAX/VMS (not even OpenVMS, but specifically VMS on the VAX).
Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
AS a Systems Engineer in the Defense industry I completely agree. It is only because we talk about a maintenance role that DOORS doesn’t come on the list with Word.
I'll bite. What is DOORS and how can I specialize in it to put my skills in high demand?
DOORS the standard tool for requirements management that combines the worst technologies IBM has to offer in order to provide you with a way of entering hypertext into a database.
Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
AS a Systems Engineer in the Defense industry I completely agree. It is only because we talk about a maintenance role that DOORS doesn’t come on the list with Word.
I'll bite. What is DOORS and how can I specialize in it to put my skills in high demand?
part of the IBM suite of bullshit job creation tools
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSYQBZ_9.5.2/...
Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's insane. A 3d matrix of ferrite rings suspended by wire would seem (to me) somewhat sensitive to vibrations or gforces. Military gonna military I guess.
For airplanes flying at high altitudes with modern computers, random bit flips from comsmic radiation is actually a very real threat that has to be considered. IIRC there's about a factor of about 300x more radiation at 30000 ft and 900x at 60000 ft. Core memory is a lot less sensitive to this than most memory types, so it makes some sense to store the most flight critical data in such a memory.
The sensible way to deal with bit flips is a gratuitous amount of ECC.
Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22
#68I think all engineers with VAX experience are extinct ...or retired.
Well, I'm forty and sadly not yet able to retire and spent some considerable time working on VMS clusters. I even run one at home for fun, very civilised operating system.
Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
More like: "We ended up hiring the guy most competent at MS Word at the expense of everything else, because out of the five requirements it was the only one the managers doing the interview knew anything about". "Johnson! We're promoting you to head technical flight operations. We can't believe the level of your MS Word skills!" "Senator, we have no idea why the F-22 inexplicably crashed. That software was designed b…
https://i.imgur.com/EN0ZkXU.png (sorry)
This is not Reddit. I know because I am often confused myself.
Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22
#70Basic Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related technical focus. • Experience in COMM and Navigation. • Avionics experience • Experience with aircraft operations. • Microsoft Office I love the MS Office req at the end. "Yes, we see you've got a BS in engineering, you're an expert at avionics and COMM control systems, but do you know anything about MS Word?"
More like: "We ended up hiring the guy most competent at MS Word at the expense of everything else, because out of the five requirements it was the only one the managers doing the interview knew anything about". "Johnson! We're promoting you to head technical flight operations. We can't believe the level of your MS Word skills!" "Senator, we have no idea why the F-22 inexplicably crashed. That software was designed b…
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