Working as a DSP Engineer!!

Steve Underwood <steveu@dis.org> wrote:

>r_obert@REMOVE_THIS.hotmail.com wrote:
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>>Stephan M. Bernsee <spam@dspdimension.com> wrote:
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>>>On 2004-12-07 03:47:19 +0100, r_obert@REMOVE_THIS.hotmail.com said:
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>>>>I've heard of other reasons cited for leaving the UK ( prices,
>>>>crowding, etc ).  David Bowie left because he couldn't stand a society
>>>>overly obsessed with celebrity anymore.  :)
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>I thought he left when he was no longer a celebrity :-) The US seems far 
>more obsessed with celebrity than the UK. Everywhere seems pretty 

Guess Mr. Bowie would disagree with ya, since he moved to New York. 

>obsessed with it, though.

Yeah.

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>>>Not forgetting the weather... :-)
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>Damn. Until you said that, I *had* forgotten the weather. Still, it has 
>merits. Low air con bills. If you don't like the weather you don't need 
>to wait too long for it to change. Great tan..... oh, sorry, that's rust.
>
>>Yeah.  Ha.  Don't mind cool and cloudy myself though ( but know that
>>puts me in a fairly small minority ).
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>You wouldn't like the UK weather. Nobody does. The UK isn't obsessed 

Next time I want to know what anyone likes, I'll come ask you.  <g>

Robert

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r_obert@REMOVE_THIS.hotmail.com wrote:

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>>>Yeah.  Ha.  Don't mind cool and cloudy myself though ( but know that
>>>puts me in a fairly small minority ).
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>>You wouldn't like the UK weather. Nobody does. The UK isn't obsessed 
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>Next time I want to know what anyone likes, I'll come ask you.  <g>
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Good point. I should have been more precise.

The UK isn't really cool and cloudy. I think that would be a fairly 
popular climate. Its a highly variable, always unpredictable, PITA 
climate. There is only a very small probability of your actually liking 
the UK weather, rather than merely tolerating it. This is based on the 
UK's population containing so few people who actually enjoy its climate 
that they don't even register in climate popularity surveys.

Is that better? :-)

Steve

Steve Underwood wrote:
> r_obert@REMOVE_THIS.hotmail.com wrote:
>
> >
> >>>Yeah.  Ha.  Don't mind cool and cloudy myself though ( but know
that
> >>>puts me in a fairly small minority ).
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>You wouldn't like the UK weather. Nobody does. The UK isn't
obsessed
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Next time I want to know what anyone likes, I'll come ask you.  <g>
> >
> >
> Good point. I should have been more precise.
>
> The UK isn't really cool and cloudy. I think that would be a fairly
> popular climate. Its a highly variable, always unpredictable, PITA
> climate. There is only a very small probability of your actually
liking
> the UK weather, rather than merely tolerating it. This is based on
the
> UK's population containing so few people who actually enjoy its
climate
> that they don't even register in climate popularity surveys.
>
> Is that better? :-)
>
> Steve

Is there any DSP Engineer in this Group from Australia or New Zealand
to share work experience and DSP future?

gold

] Is there any DSP Engineer in this Group from Australia or New Zealand
] to share work experience and DSP future?

Some on the group (Andrew Reilly, Allan Herriman) appear to be in
interesting DSP jobs in Oz.

I found it hard to get anything particularly interesting: just
academic jobs in which the pay is awful and the politics worse.
Ciao,

Peter K.

Peter K. wrote:
> ] Is there any DSP Engineer in this Group from Australia or New Zealand
> ] to share work experience and DSP future?
> 
> Some on the group (Andrew Reilly, Allan Herriman) appear to be in
> interesting DSP jobs in Oz.
> 
> I found it hard to get anything particularly interesting: just
> academic jobs in which the pay is awful and the politics worse.
> Ciao,
> 
> Peter K.
> 
The market for DSP devices in Oz is really really small, so maybe they 
have the only two jobs there :-)

Regards,
Steve

On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 22:47:07 +0800, Steve Underwood wrote:
> Peter K. wrote:
>> ] Is there any DSP Engineer in this Group from Australia or New Zealand
>> ] to share work experience and DSP future?
>> 
>> Some on the group (Andrew Reilly, Allan Herriman) appear to be in
>> interesting DSP jobs in Oz.
>> 
>> I found it hard to get anything particularly interesting: just
>> academic jobs in which the pay is awful and the politics worse.
>> Ciao,
>> 
>> Peter K.
>> 
> The market for DSP devices in Oz is really really small, so maybe they 
> have the only two jobs there :-)

Our market is the same as everyone else's: global.

Historical note: I don't remember the exact date, but it was many
years after I joined Lake before we made our first local sale.  That
might mean that our marketing folk spend more time in aeroplanes and
other countries than they would if they were based somewhere with a larger
local market.  Not sure, though.  I suspect that's the same everywhere
too.  The big difference, then, is that we accumulate more frequent flyer
miles, because the first leg is always at least 9 or 13 hours...

There are quite a few (not by US or EU standards, I'll admit) other
DSP-related companies locally, though.  Just off the top of my head,
there's Fairlight and DEQx, on the other side of the bridge, doing audio
(at least), and lots of other folk working in communications (both voice
and transport issues) and defense-related DSP (sonar and radar mostly). A
couple of Uni friends of mine work(ed) on the over-the-horizon radar
project, for example.  That's a very neat piece of DSP.

Ten years ago, my choice was move to Sydney or stay in academia, because
there weren't any other DSP jobs in Brisbane.  Having just spent the
previous 20 years in academic institutions --- if you count pre-school :-)
--- was certainly an influence towards moving.  Sydney turned out to be a
really nice place to live, too, which is a bonus.  I've gone sailing
after work for a couple of hours, recently, now that daylight savings has
kicked-in.  Coleagues who live in Bondi surf before coming to work.

Cheers,

-- 
Andrew

argon_gold@hotmail.com wrote:
> Hi DSP Gurus,
>
> Could you point out which place is good to work as a DSP Engineer in
> terms of Salary and benefits?? such as USA or UK or France or
> Malaysia?
>
> Hong Kong is not a choice as Engineers in HK are treated as
> technicians in all aspects.
>
> Thanks in advance for sharing your views
>
> gold

Should I take it as a warning that no one has mentioned Canada yet?
Although I wouldn't rate it as the pinnacle of dsp engineering work, it
isn't exactly barren either.  Probably on the same scale as down under,
but with a different accent of course
Ah, but perhaps I should be quiet, more jobs for me.

QN

"QN" <qn_42@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>argon_gold@hotmail.com wrote:
>> Hi DSP Gurus,
>>
>> Could you point out which place is good to work as a DSP Engineer in
>> terms of Salary and benefits?? such as USA or UK or France or
>> Malaysia?
>>
>> Hong Kong is not a choice as Engineers in HK are treated as
>> technicians in all aspects.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for sharing your views
>>
>> gold
>
>Should I take it as a warning that no one has mentioned Canada yet?
>Although I wouldn't rate it as the pinnacle of dsp engineering work, it
>isn't exactly barren either.  Probably on the same scale as down under,
>but with a different accent of course
>Ah, but perhaps I should be quiet, more jobs for me.

Canada has DSP activity.  But it's a smaller community, obviously,
then the states.  For what it's worth, the pay is generally less there
too.  From what I know, Canada's DSP positions right now are almost
off limits to anyone other than Canadians.  The reason being that
thier IT market has been pretty depressed for a while.  And although
it's starting to come out of it, there are still many Canadians to
fill the positions ( thanks to huge layoffs at Nortel, etc ).  

Regards,

Robert

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