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If you have degree's, how hard is it to find work from home EE jobs ?

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tom66:
Hardware engineering still requires some physical presence.

I work mostly from home nowadays but I'm in the office about 1-2 days a week depending on what's needed. 

Fully remote for hardware is very difficult to imagine - software on the other hand seems to be going that way for good now.

hans:
There are a few challenges I can imagine with doing EE work remotely.

First is an equipped lab. This has different meanings for every product. If you design general purpose HW, then a basic hobbyist lab can suffice these days. If you work on the latest and greatest PCIe standards with complicated RF signal chains, then you probably need something more than a 1k$ scope. For many employers, just buying 1 high-end measurement device can be a big deal as it needs to get enough usage to be worthwhile. And are they letting you borrow 30k$+ worth of equipment? Not all employers will I imagine..

Second is that design is often only 1 part of the job. Especially in smaller companies, you may also need to design for manufacIturing (and perhaps visit the production facility), put production/testing/QA jigs in place. Write manuals and train personnel how to use that tooling. Etc. Now a large part can be prepared at home, but at some point you'll need to get out the door. Flying all over the globe is not very nice for ad-hoc issues.

Third is time zone difference. A few hours is solvable. But let's say 6, 8 or 12hrs? It could work in theory, but both parties will need to be willing to do so. Are you willing to have project meetings at 9PM? Or get in the office early at 6AM? Or vice versa? Some people take their time schedule very strict w.r.t. family time and whatnot. They need to get out the office at 6 for other obligations.

Finally, not everyone likes having colleagues that work from home. It's just less easy to get in touch with them, find mutual time in the office, etc. Communication is always a crucial factor for work.

I think the first 2 points are what makes EE work remote a lot harder. The last 2 points are shared for any job. It doesn't have to be a show stopper, as long it's clear what the expectations and framework is within to operate.

m98:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on October 27, 2022, 11:41:38 pm ---Over here, Altium licenses are very expensive. So how do they do it? Hypotheses:
- They are using cracked versions,

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Personal experience from one Asian country: even the government uses cracked Windows and MS Office, never mind any business or freelancer. There are companies selling nothing but collections of software cracks.

jonpaul:
Networks and computers from Chinese firms and government that use stolen ( cracked) SW licences, are contaminated with malware. We have messages or attachments from such sites that  are very risky.

Tons of spam after every contact.

J

 

Black Phoenix:

--- Quote from: Monkeh on October 28, 2022, 02:59:44 am ---
--- Quote from: Black Phoenix on October 28, 2022, 02:55:47 am ---
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on October 27, 2022, 11:48:52 pm ---I get the feeling if Autocad had been successful in buying the Altium company, it might have been a good thing for users.

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As someone who have some friends deep into Photoshop, Lightroom, Premiere and Dreamweaver not even in your wildest dreams that would be true.

It's considered the "EA" of the professional software world.

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Err, those are all Adobe products.

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Now they are, before they weren't. I gave the reference of "EA" because the practice is the same: aquire good companies and then assimilate them, turning into a shadow of what they were before acquisition.

Adobe could dream to be what Macromedia was...

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