We have the feedback from participants in last week’s annual
SEED Event. 34 people responded to our survey, out of about 80
SEED mentees, managers, and mentors who joined the meeting in person or
by phone from around the world.
Using the following response scale: (very poor = 1, neutral = 4, very good = 7),
the highest average score among the nine questions was 6.19, rating
“Arrangements for the meeting (advance information, event web page, room size, location, room temperature)”; the lowest was 5.28, rating the
“SEED Showcase presentations”.
Here are some comments from the surveys:
- It is great that the presentations are about Sun’s new products, advanced technologies, strategies or of help for engineer’s career plan and development.
- Especially I really liked the technical presentation.
- The presentations are informative. I learned a lot that I didn’t know but wanted to know (such as the details on
Blackbox). - Very amusing, I learned several interesting facts. Tour guide Excellent !
- Was not aware of how our product design came from, but when standing in the special black room [of the Usability Lab], I got the answer
- Nice people, really friendly atmosphere where even such introvert like myself could feel like at home 🙂
- Awesome – met some great people and made several new contacts.
- Participated remotely. Could hear fine and appreciated having the presentations posted on the website.
- Room was a bit cold for those not used to real aircon 🙂
- A little tough to sit through that many presentations on the phone in a row and stay focused. I’d recommend breaking up the speakers a little bit.
- Worked well – presos in the morning, while folks are awake 🙂
- I think that you did a good job of making remote participants involved in the discussions.
- I think the variety of speakers was a good idea
We are now setting up the schedule for SEED’s 2007-2008 monthly phone-in
meetings.
More information on SEED is available at
http://research.sun.com/SEED/
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