We started the mentor matching cycle on 11 March for the new
SEED worldwide Engineering
Established Staff term. In the first twelve days of this cycle, we
have matched half of the participants (23 out of 47). All participants
will be matched, most within the next few weeks. The SEED program will
re-match any mentee whose mentor leaves Sun within three months of their match.
Metrics
The 23 newly matched mentors include Distinguished Engineers, Directors, Vice
Presidents, and senior Engineering staff members. The geographical
pairings so far include:
- Albuquerque, NM USA with Beijing, China
- Brisbane, Australia with Beijing, China
- Burlington, MA USA with Broomfield, CO USA
- Camberley, United Kingdom with Oslo, Norway
- Itasca, IL USA with Burlington, MA USA
- Itasca, IL USA with Velizy, France
- Leeds, United Kingdom with Hamburg, Germany
- Menlo Park, CA USA with Austin, TX USA
- Menlo Park, CA USA with Bangalore, India
- Menlo Park, CA USA with Houston, TX USA
- Menlo Park, CA USA with other San Francisco Bay Area locations
- Montbonnot Saint Martin, France with Prague, Czech Republic
- San Diego, CA USA with San Diego, CA USA
- Santa Clara, CA USA with Beijing, China
- Santa Clara, CA USA with Burlington, MA USA
- Seattle, WA USA with Santa Clara, CA USA
- Somerset, NJ USA with Universal City, CA USA
- Walldorf, Germany with Menlo Park, CA USA
Next Terms
SEED runs seven terms a year. The next
terms will be for PreSEED and GSS SEED. Applications for PreSEED and GSS SEED
will be accepted starting at the end of March 2009 – the terms will run June-December 2009.
Those terms will be followed by an Established Staff term plus the year-long term
for Recent Hires (applications in June, terms to start in September 2009).
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