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That’s wrong. An engineer has a couple managers above. Product, project, platform manager. You name it. Engineer is just another blue collar worker nowadays. No

by lnsru 8y ago

That’s wrong. An engineer has a couple managers above. Product, project, platform manager. You name it. Engineer is just another blue collar worker nowadays. No decision making power. I was not allowed to save company $40k, they told that numbers shouldn’t interest me. If management says, we need no encryption and authentifition, it’s totally ok. I just print their emails with this statement for later.

est 8y ago
> Product, project, platform manager you'd be surprised to learn how many pieces of code were designed, written and shipped by one man army.
rapsey 8y ago
Managers get their cues from engineers. Electronics companies obviously mostly have electronics engineers and they run the engineering side.
dpark 8y ago
Engineering is absolutely not blue collar, but this has nothing to do with the issue you’re facing. If you found an opportunity to save $40k and they said you shouldn’t care about numbers, then either you have poor management or there’s more to the story that you didn’t share. At the very least competent management should have been able to explain why saving the $40k was the wrong trade off.
- lnsru 8y ago
  Yes, competent management. Didn’t experienced much companies having it. With competent management I could save my salary for couple years in this project alone. The client ist other branch of the same company. I could design a pcb with components for our needs, instead of that management wants to go with expensive 3rd party module having all bells and whistles on it. Edit: pcb design is risky. But the system is very primitive having voltage regulator and single integrated circuit in it. I doubt this department with current performance would survive as independent company.
consp 8y ago
If you can save 40k and they don't care. Ask for a 40k raise and if they say they don't have the money ... well ... you know where to get it.

by lnsru 8y ago

est 8y ago

> Product, project, platform manager you'd be surprised to learn how many pieces of code were designed, written and shipped by one man army.

rapsey 8y ago

Managers get their cues from engineers. Electronics companies obviously mostly have electronics engineers and they run the engineering side.

dpark 8y ago

Engineering is absolutely not blue collar, but this has nothing to do with the issue you’re facing. If you found an opportunity to save $40k and they said you shouldn’t care about numbers, then either you have poor management or there’s more to the story that you didn’t share. At the very least competent management should have been able to explain why saving the $40k was the wrong trade off.

lnsru 8y ago
Yes, competent management. Didn’t experienced much companies having it. With competent management I could save my salary for couple years in this project alone. The client ist other branch of the same company. I could design a pcb with components for our needs, instead of that management wants to go with expensive 3rd party module having all bells and whistles on it. Edit: pcb design is risky. But the system is very primitive having voltage regulator and single integrated circuit in it. I doubt this department with current performance would survive as independent company.

consp 8y ago

If you can save 40k and they don't care. Ask for a 40k raise and if they say they don't have the money ... well ... you know where to get it.