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Outsourceing Company Or Big firm
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| Hi all:
Now I am a vendor and my current company is one outsourceing
company. Recently I want to change my career path. There are two
chance for me.
One is still outsourceing company. This position is not only onsite
module. It is solution outsourceing. The outsourceing object is big
firm, such as GE. The responsibility is to provide a testing solution
for the firm's product and help local testing execution team implement
testing. The responsibility is complex, it includes: solution design,
training local team, arranging proper source to implement testing,
team management, competition with other outsourceing company, etc. The
worker has to do different products from different companies one after
another.
Another is to work in big firm, such as Symantec . The position is QA
engineer. the responsibility is to test one product. the Engineer
possibly will be an expert on testing web security. He may focus on
one area of IT,such as security.
what is better choice?
Thanks
Gary
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| > what is better choice?
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> Thanks
> Gary
Like most things in testing, the answer is 'it depends'. Only YOU can
tell YOU which is best for YOU. Everyone is going to bring thier own
biases to the table which may not be aligned with your biases. So any
answer along the lines of A or B is going to be more damaging than no
answer.
-adam
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| just go for the most money
"Gary" <vegtomato@yahoo.com.cn> wrote in message
news:1181219834.353614.326760@a26g2000pre.googlegroups.com...
> Hi all:
> Now I am a vendor and my current company is one outsourceing
> company. Recently I want to change my career path. There are two
> chance for me.
> One is still outsourceing company. This position is not only onsite
> module. It is solution outsourceing. The outsourceing object is big
> firm, such as GE. The responsibility is to provide a testing solution
> for the firm's product and help local testing execution team implement
> testing. The responsibility is complex, it includes: solution design,
> training local team, arranging proper source to implement testing,
> team management, competition with other outsourceing company, etc. The
> worker has to do different products from different companies one after
> another.
>
> Another is to work in big firm, such as Symantec . The position is QA
> engineer. the responsibility is to test one product. the Engineer
> possibly will be an expert on testing web security. He may focus on
> one area of IT,such as security.
>
> what is better choice?
>
> Thanks
> Gary
>
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| dumitru.corobceanu@gmail.com 2007-06-08, 7:19 pm |
| What are you afraid of? What are your concerns about it? Why would you
move? Why would you stay?
This is only up to you. We just may share our personal experience on
this matter if we have any...
On Jun 7, 1:37 pm, Gary <vegtom...@yahoo.com.cn> wrote:
> Hi all:
> Now I am a vendor and my current company is one outsourceing
> company. Recently I want to change my career path. There are two
> chance for me.
> One is still outsourceing company. This position is not only onsite
> module. It is solution outsourceing. The outsourceing object is big
> firm, such as GE. The responsibility is to provide a testing solution
> for the firm's product and help local testing execution team implement
> testing. The responsibility is complex, it includes: solution design,
> training local team, arranging proper source to implement testing,
> team management, competition with other outsourceing company, etc. The
> worker has to do different products from different companies one after
> another.
>
> Another is to work in big firm, such as Symantec . The position is QA
> engineer. the responsibility is to test one product. the Engineer
> possibly will be an expert on testing web security. He may focus on
> one area of IT,such as security.
>
> what is better choice?
>
> Thanks
> Gary
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| Wayne Woodruff 2007-06-08, 7:19 pm |
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>Hi all:
> Now I am a vendor and my current company is one outsourceing
>company. Recently I want to change my career path. There are two
>chance for me.
>One is still outsourceing company. This position is not only onsite
>module. It is solution outsourceing. The outsourceing object is big
>firm, such as GE. The responsibility is to provide a testing solution
>for the firm's product and help local testing execution team implement
>testing. The responsibility is complex, it includes: solution design,
>training local team, arranging proper source to implement testing,
>team management, competition with other outsourceing company, etc. The
>worker has to do different products from different companies one after
>another.
>
>Another is to work in big firm, such as Symantec . The position is QA
>engineer. the responsibility is to test one product. the Engineer
>possibly will be an expert on testing web security. He may focus on
>one area of IT,such as security.
>
>what is better choice?
We can't make that decision, you must.
I suggest a couple of things.
Make a table with places for plusses and minuses. For each job, fill
out the table and perhaps weight them. That may help you. Consider
everything, pay, benefits, promotion opportinities as well as the work
side. How secure are the companies? How financially secure are they?
Are they growing or stagnant? Are they respected in their businesses
as "a good place to work"?
One job sounds very diverse, the other very narrow. The first may
expose you to a variety of technologies, the other may be very
focused. The diversity may be fun, but having a through knowledge of
web security could open many doors for you later.
HTH
Wayne Woodruff
http://www.2zars.com
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| > We can't make that decision, you must.
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> I suggest a couple of things.
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> Make a table with places for plusses and minuses. For each job, fill
> out the table and perhaps weight them. That may help you. Consider
> everything, pay, benefits, promotion opportinities as well as the work
> side. How secure are the companies? How financially secure are they?
> Are they growing or stagnant? Are they respected in their businesses
> as "a good place to work"?
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> One job sounds very diverse, the other very narrow. The first may
> expose you to a variety of technologies, the other may be very
> focused. The diversity may be fun, but having a through knowledge of
> web security could open many doors for you later.
Thats right Wayne. Apart from that, you might want to speak to the
people already working in these organizations, in the team you would
be joining to get feel of what kind of culture persist at the team
level. As everyone suggested, it will be your personal choice but to
me it looks like outsourcing firm can expose to variety of situations
and will probably enable you to take managerial path on the other hand
product organization will make you technically competent and can give
you different options.
Thanks,
G
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