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It's been quite the flurry of events these past couple of weeks!

Up until January 17, all of my classmates (including myself) were rushing to finish our respective fourth year design projects in time for the annual Symposium. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, it refers to the ECE (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Design Symposium, which showcases all the fourth year students' design projects. In preparation for the big day, we had to design and print a poster, design and rehearse a seminar presentation, and create a demonstration to present at our booth. In the end, our new form of peer-to-peer communication was perfected and showed to all in brilliant glory - attracting the likes of Microsoft and even a venture capitalist!

Being awarded 3rd best overall came as a complete, and welcome, surprise; but that was entirely eclipsed by a phone call that came during the Symposium. The voice on the other end was none other than the HR from PMC-Sierra, telling me that yes indeed, I got the job! The very same Mixed Signal Layout position, for which I endured a 3-hour interview!

Today, I officially signed the papers and am now set to be a full-time PMC employee come July 3!

Comments

Anonymous said…
wow great job with getting 3rd place! and of course thats UBER AWESOME that you got the job! esp after enduring that interview. thats the one where you cried in front of the guy right? lol
January 23, 2007 6:14 pm
Scott Kuo said…
Congratulations! Hopefully we'll be working together again in May!
January 23, 2007 9:19 pm
lifeasj said…
Hehe - nope, it's not the one where I cried. :) Too bad!

And yeah... hopefully we'll be working together again, Scott! Are you definitely going back to PMC?
January 24, 2007 1:14 pm
Nicolas Brown said…
Congrats J!

That makes (at least) 2!
January 24, 2007 2:55 pm
lifeasj said…
Oh wow - you got a job too? Congrats! :D
January 24, 2007 6:42 pm
Roma said…
yaaaay congrats j-unit!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D
January 26, 2007 12:48 pm
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