Friends Jobs

Ann, resident
Internship at IBM

Peter, Int't student
Internship at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

Peter, resident
Internship at Xilinx

Dennis, resident
Internship at Xilinx
applied April 25th, 2006 during just in time career fair, phone interviewed for 20 minutes on May 24th (May 20th was graduation). On-site interview at south of San Jose on May 26th, interviewed by 5 people over 2 and a half hour. Only dennis was being interviewed that day. Job function includes characterization of FPGA boards, may do layout later on with Cadence Virtuoso. Have used verilog for the job so far, and all the CS 150 softwares, and went into labs to measure stuff. Recommended to know Perl for the job.

Paul
Contractor of National Semiconductor, full time

Marco, citizen
Intel, intern, interviewed with Omnivision.

Daniel
Pixel Work, full time. His girlfriend in california.

Kelly, resident
from De Anza, Intel fulltime.

Chris, int'l student

On-Campus Recruting Interview (OCR) interview at UC Berkeley for International Rectifier during Spring 2004, 10 people being interviewed
On site interview, at a place near LA, near the end of March 2004. There was only one day of interviewing, and 10-20 people were interviewed, 5 people were employed. Among those 5, at least 2 people were international students (including Chris). Probably Chris is the only International student hired with only a Bachelor Degree that year.
International Rectifier makes Power Devices, Rectifier, Power MOS, IGBP (BJT-like stuff)
Chris, Rotational Engineer, makes driver for AC/DC motor
Receive a degree certification that is needed for H-1B application in August 2004, while he accepted the offer near the end of April 2004
When applying for H-1B in August, he was told by the company lawyer the application quota for H-1B was gone.

Brian, Int'l student

Product Specialist for Nasda, software company, did some application work before.
Worked for another software company, Abanti, which does not exist anymore.
check H-1 visa on Immigration.org or something like that .
Graduated 2000
Has friends who were late to apply for H-1 for 1 day, and didn't get H-1. His friend went back to China for half a year, then come back. The company gave his friend his position back after half a year.
graduated in May. In June or July started working. Applied H-1 after working for about 9 months.
The fee for H-1 was shared, sometimes paid by company, the fee was about $2000 and so
has friend worked for AMD, Intel (not necessarily international student friends)

Jayson, resident

Internship at Cypress
Saw the offer on the career fair website. Applied at the end of April. Got an on-site interview right in a couple day. 2 interviewed him, a group director and a member. Supposed to have 4 ppl interviewing him, but 2 other people were being interviewed that day, so only 2 interviewers. Application Engineer, works for Dual Port RAM group, then switch to the Network Search Group.
Got the interview through Caljob.
Graduate Spring 2006

Vitoria, Int'l student

Internship for Giga-tronics for 3 months, got the offer on 19 Mar 2005, located in San Ramon. Training starting in June 2005.
Graduate 2005
Got Gigatronics internship through On Campus recruiting (OCR). OCR on Feb 8th, On-site interview at San Ramon on Mar 4th at 10am. Took 2 hours and so to go from Berkeley to San Ramon.
Giga-tronics was not in the Career Fair.
First round OCR has about 20 people to be interviewed, second round on-site has 3 people being interviewed that Friday (Mar 4th). The on-site interview has at least be run for 3 days. Got phone internship offer on Mar 8th
Got 5 interviews in Fall 2004, all through OCR. Got 10 interviews in Spring 2005, 6 through OCR, 2 through Caljob, 2 through info session.