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- From: danr@ais.org (Daniel Romanchik)
- Subject: Re: I don't want to keep looking for new jobs.
- Message-ID: <BzppJ8.15o@ais.org>
- Organization: UMCC
- References: <1992Dec21.194434.1455@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <BzMox1.Jyt@vcd.hp.com>
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 12:33:06 GMT
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- In article <BzMox1.Jyt@vcd.hp.com> edmoore@vcd.hp.com (Ed Moore) writes:
-
- >HP understands that no product family lasts forever, and engineers must
- >be prepared to change jobs _within_the_company_ several times in a
- >career. Specialties may disappear with a product family, so specialists
- >are rare. Many job openings in growing HP divisions are restricted to
- >people declared excess by a shrinking division. I've been with HP for
- >7 years and believe I can stay until I retire (19 years), but I don't
- >know what product families I'll work on or what engineering functions
- >I'll perform in those years.
- >
- This reinforces my opinion that Hewlett Packard is one of the
- well-managed companies.
-
- Dan
-