We are in the second part of the application period for the 2007-2008 SEED Engineering mentoring
program Recent Hire and Established Staff terms. Sun’s Chief Technology Officer
and Executive Vice President of Research and Development,
Greg Papadopoulos
sent email to Sun Engineering worldwide on 21 May opening the application period.
We received 167 impressive applications by the 1 June first deadline. Between the
two application deadlines, HR reviews the application forms to verify basic
information (hire date, grade level, annual performance ratings, etc.). Here is what
we know so far:
- Applicants: 167
- Completed Applications: 16
- By Organization:
- CTO/Sun Labs: 1 [ 1% ]
- Microelectronics: 16 [ 10% ]
- Sales (GSS): 8 [ 5% ]
- Services (GSS): 12 [ 7% ]
- Software Group: 96 [ 57% ]
- Storage Group: 10 [ 6% ]
- Systems Group: 20 [ 12% ]
- Worldwide Operations: 4 [ 2% ]
- By Work Location:
- APAC (Asia Pacific): 1 [ 1% ]
- Americas (outside USA): 2 [ 1% ]
- China: 23 [ 14% ]
- Czech Republic: 9 [ 5% ]
- EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa): 2 [ 1% ]
- France: 2 [ 1% ]
- Germany: 3 [ 2% ]
- India: 21 [ 13% ]
- Ireland: 3 [ 2% ]
- Russia: 6 [ 4% ]
- USA
- Central USA: 15 [ 9% ]
- Eastern USA: 15 [ 9% ]
- Western USA: 64 [ 54% ]
All additional application materails are due 8 June (recommendation letters, resumes, etc.),
by midnight, Pacific time. The Selection Committees meet 13 June.
The Recent Hire term runs September 2007-September 2008. The Established Staff
term runs September 2007-March 2008. We plan to select about 80 participants, divided
roughly evenly between Recent Hires and Established Staff.
More information on SEED is available at
http://research.sun.com/SEED/
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