So I'm a college intern at HP working with the product management team. Since it seems a lot of people here work in the tech-industry. I want to get a feel of people's view and opinion on working in the tech industry, what recommendations they have, whatever comes to mind.

 

I work in the SaaS NOC at HP in Cupertino, Building 46 upper. The pay is good for the work, I got in with almost no tech experience. It's a pretty easy gig, I think I'd rather be doing something else. But, in this economy... I'll take whatever I can get.

 

I just recently go a job at at company called Bay TSP. I work the graveyard shift and I basically report on illegal content on the internet (youtube videos, justin.tv streams, ect). It is pretty chill, beats the hell out of working retail. Before this I worked at Kinko's.

 

I'm the tech lead at staples if that counts haha

 

cool i used to work in the mist lab in building 45 upper.
glad to hear ur still there after what went down monday

 

Well, I have been in the tech world for going on 25+ years now. Its sometimes hard, sometimes easy, but if you love working in the field, then stick with it.

Right now I am in what I would call a "perfect" job. I work for a small construction company of about 200 users, My boss (the IT manager) is also my best friend ive known for going on 15 years, and I make almost what I was making back in the start of the dot com days. Now, close to the end of the dot com days I was pulling down 90+ a year as a help desk manager, but them days are loonggggg gone.

 

I work an an Exchange and Web Hosting company. I've been doing IT for ~12 years or so.

It's like any other job I guess. The company I'm with now really sucked at first. My peers were cool, but everything else was a mess. But we brought in new management and now I love it here. Our products are solid, and the environment is fun and relaxed.

I do tech because it's fairly easy, you're always picking up the new technology and it's decent pay.

 

Anyone have any advice for someone trying to switch careers into high-tech? I took some Computer Science classes back at SJSU but that was 10 years ago and even though their new Software Engineer program looks attractive, I'm not sure If I could hack it. Anyone know of any good certificate programs that I could get some decent work skills? Money is not much of a problem so I'm looking for small classes with alot of 1 on 1 interaction with the instructors. You can PM me if y'all so wish, thanks.

 

I'm in the tech industry now for 14 years. It's a huge industry, there is the business, development, infrastructure and services sides. If you want to get in, what do you want to do?

These are the title/roles that I've had desktop support, sys admin, sales engineer, IT manager, system engineer.

One of the sweetest jobs is sales engineer, you have to good presentation skills and the pay is very good. To me the crap job is post sales/consultant, you are at the mercy of the sales and sales engineers have sold to the customer and what the customer expects from the product.

The easiest way to get into the industry is by the help desk / desktop support route.

 

i am tech dork

i started in 99 as a support dude, then moved into engineering for a DSL company. great experience and pretty much self taught myslef everything.

the pay is decent, and if you can find a niche or find a gig like myself and overbear (i am in charge of the tiny network here at a friends dirt bike shop in truckee. i do all ecom and web stuff as well as all the networking and hardware upkeep) then it can really payoff.

i am trying to mix my sales skills wityh the tech stuff. and that is what is so great about it/tech crap. it can apply to almost every part of everyones lives. even dirt biking or extreme sports. Everyone has a tech department/IT guy. Sort of a commodity so to speak in this economy as we inch forward....

josh

 

I'm stuck in tech
I can't get away, it's too much fun. There are so many aspects to it, and it's constantly changing, but everything stays the same.

I've been at SanDisk for 10yrs now. Three different groups and four different product lines

 

I work in building 45!

I work in PSG with Workstations. How's the work environment at HP? And how's the employee discounts?

 

What happened on Monday? I work Tues-Saturday from 12-9pm so I miss most of the office happenings.

 

HP Subaru meet FTW. We all need to grab beers at the Duke.

 

The work environment is pretty chill, where I'm at is basically the lowest rung on the ladder. There's been a lot of management shift over the last year, so it feels like we're working without any real oversight sometimes. Pay and Benefits are great, employee discount is ok... sometimes the same computer is cheaper at Best Buy or Fry's when it's on sale.