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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

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Post by 0xfaded »

cbm-vic-20 wrote: post #87
avar wrote: post #53

Earlier 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…

"I see you're trying to shoot down an Irani F-14. Would you like help with that?" [Yes] [No] [Cancel]

Such a beautiful warbird, and such a shame they were all cut to pieces just to cut Iran off from black market parts.

Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

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Post by jessaustin »

ProxCoques wrote: post #83
7952 wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't see much point in asking for an office package in a job advert. But a lot of jobs do require use of these packages and the level of skill can be terrible in otherwise highly trained people. If you use the apps a lot you should learn how to use them properly, and a lot of people just can't be bothered.

I know it's kinda trivial, but I strongly agree with this. For example, inheriting a set of Word/Google docs where all the formatting is applied locally without the use of styles. So I can't turn on the outliner or generate a table of contents. Or not including a proper footer with page numbers in n/nn format so that if I print them out and drop them I know how to put them back together. Or having decent metadata in…

Who's more likely to know (or be able to figure out, in 3.5 minutes) how to use Word text styles? The candidate who has room in the "skills" section for MS-Word, or the candidate who has actual skills to list?

Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

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Post by jki275 »

challenger22 wrote: post #88
avar wrote: post #53

Earlier 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…

More like: The guy that designed the flight control surfaces of the F-22 did so using an elaborate Excel spreadsheet powered by 4,000 lines of uncommented VBA filled with aerodynamics equations, and he retired 3 years ago.

That is so much more likely than you know...

Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

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Post by raverbashing »

adrianN wrote: post #65
xelxebar wrote: post #62

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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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOORS

Oh of course it's a "Rational" product

Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

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Post by euler_angles »

urban_winter wrote: post #18

I started my career working for British Aerospace in 1989. We used VAX/VMS as our development platform (Code was CORAL 66 and then ADA). I spent some time supporting the Sea Harrier flight test operations - so I would have fitted this job perfectly about 28 years ago!). I'd like to say that I'm astonished that modern aircraft still use the 1553 bus, but nothing surprises me when it comes to the use of stone-age tech…

The 1553 bus is ancient, but it's electrically and logically simple. The concepts necessary to use and incorporate 1553 into designs is easily acquired by a fresh engineer (I should know, I first used 1553 in a design as a 24 year old straight out of grad school) and it's already incorporated into all kinds of avionics and weapons. Why not use it?

Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

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Post by euler_angles »

metaphor wrote: post #39
urban_winter wrote: post #18

I started my career working for British Aerospace in 1989. We used VAX/VMS as our development platform (Code was CORAL 66 and then ADA). I spent some time supporting the Sea Harrier flight test operations - so I would have fitted this job perfectly about 28 years ago!). I'd like to say that I'm astonished that modern aircraft still use the 1553 bus, but nothing surprises me when it comes to the use of stone-age tech…

> I'd like to say that I'm astonished that modern aircraft still use the 1553 bus... What's wrong with 1553? It's reliable, battle-tested, and the latest revision C was published 28-Feb-2018. In contrast, the RS-232 PHY dates back to 1960, yet it's quite alive and well in modern commercial devices. As a consolation, be glad you've never had to deal with the monster that is STANAG 5516/MIL-STD-6016...if there was such…

As someone who has read all of 6016, doing so cost me a good chunk of my sanity.

Never mind the fact that many areas of the standard don't matter because the manufacturers of equipment that use those areas made up their own way of doing things that isn't 6016 compliant. So you can comply to the standard, or you can actually work with platforms in the real world, but you can't do both.

Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

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Post by cushychicken »

vonmoltke wrote: post #90
ch_123 wrote: post #64

ISTR 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).

ISTR? Anyway, the processors in the F-22A are a mix of different cores. The power supply in the Gen 3 radar used a MIL-STD-1750A processor. The PICC[1] processor modules also used the MIL-STD-1750A originally, but moved to a newer processor in a refresh (if I remember correctly). I don't know what the non-Raytheon components of the plane were using. As for the compiler, you are spot-on. We had a MicroVAX in a vault (…

"I Seem To Recall"

Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

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Post by drdeadringer »

proy24 wrote: post #13

I think all engineers with VAX experience are extinct ...or retired.

My first job out of college and I was put on assignment using a VAX -- this was 2005 in Cambridge, MA.

It's a weird feeling when you are in your early 30s and encounter a personally familiar piece of hardware in a history museum.

Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

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Post by [deleted] »

mxcrossb wrote: post #80
bdowling wrote: post #57

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If his resume didn’t say anything about MS Office, then he’d be screened out by HR and the managers would never get to consider him. So, that conversation would never happen.

Knowing to put ms office on your resume to get by HR’s stupidity is exactly the kind of skills needed to work in a big company

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