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From: ksand@apple.com (Kent Sandvik)
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Subject: Re: Macintosh wiz seeks employment ASAP
Message-ID: <13918@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 7 Jun 91 01:13:49 GMT
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In article <23199@shlump.lkg.dec.com>, mcculley@alien.enet.dec.com writes:
> 
> Truth is, the folks in the field offices often know as much or more about the
> innards of products as the folks who developed them.  Folks in field offices
> get to help real customers do real work, something folks in .edu-land probably
> don't understand very well :-), and this means designing applications,
> implementing systems, and diagnosing problems with base products and customer
> code too.  For my money, a *-> good <-* technical background in the field is a
> whole helluva lot better experience than the same time in product development.

Speaking as a former Apple field engineering person and before that a former R&D 
guy it is really up to each person what they will learn about the Macintosh technology
in the field: programming, systems support, solution issues, comms, hardware or plain 
customer question answering. Some people love programming, others are just happy
when they fix hardware or speak with customers about solutions.

Kent
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