[sax]

What sort of position are you applying for at Qualcomm and more importantly what sort of job are you interested in? Curious because most of Qualcomm's work is way below the abstraction level of the "average" HN audience (I work there)

Boulder, is a fun place to ski/hike with plenty of young interesting folks. Tons of startup folks: http://www.centernetworks.com/why-i-love-boulder

I am usually at the Laughing Goat in the afternoons on the weekend, if you want to meetup.

[notauser]

There are people here with all sorts of backgrounds - I'm pretty sure there are some folks from Intel who read HN, as well as some I know from Nokia.

I did some low level work (and most of my degree was EE), and to be honest I don't think moving up and down the stack is that insurmountable provided you are willing to spend the time (re)learning a chunk of stuff each time.

[sax]

My undergrad background is in EE and good amount of research work with compilers in grad school. I am apprehensive about working on low-level software because the state-of-art in commercial OS development in smart-phones always lags a few years behind desktop or high-end systems. The software problems have already been solved by other folks.

Example, Low-level software is poorly designed from a software engineering point of view and its problems plainly evident over multiple hardware product cycles.

[TheSOB88]

I didn't apply for the job; they just called me one day and offered me a trip. I think they're just trying to take advantage of lazy (college) seniors like me who haven't found a job yet.

They scream 'big corporation' - they didn't even phone interview me before inviting me down, and their website calls Twitter "haiku-like streams of content". I am really wary of this company. Can you confirm or deny this?

The job I'd want would be in a fairly high-level language like Python; the manager would have done my job before. I also hope for smart version control and smart employee evaluations (like not how long you work/how many LoC).

I'd love to talk with you when I get down there. My email address is [e-mail]. Please send me a message so we can correspond!