Experiences at sony

Sony is a wonderful company to work for. There are always advantages to working at such a well known company. I am always learning new things about electronic and there are many incentives to work there.

You need to be very confident in yourself and your abilities.

-Development of software embedded on Japanese Set Top Box base on MPEG2 System layer Transport Stream (from Application layer format design to DEMUX device driver)
-Development of Virtual Phone (3D headphone)
-Research and Development of Speech Synthesizer
-Development of Speech Recognition (in part)
-Development of GUI for HDTV...

The web community was relatively small back then although growing and I was quite well known and high profile; when more people know you you get the problem of recnising people - many a time I'd be chatting to X when i thought I was chatting to Y - poor devils must have thought I was crazy - it taught me to focus on recogising peoples faces and connecting them to their positions and companies. You had to be there!...

For me it was a three stage process, I think if the post is a normal one it can be 2 interviews but I had an initial panel of 3 including an HR representative, my Japanese boss and the technical manager (I guessed to see if I new my tech stuff).

1)that Sony was a top brand - you could always get a meeting 2) the resources and internal company networking was very good 3) we had an open ended budget!

I was head-hunted away from CompuServe