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Congratulations to the 52 SEED Engineering mentoring program
participants just selected for the June-December 2007 term! This is a
special term for Sun Engineering staff working in Bangalore, Beijing,
Prague, and St. Petersburg. There were 81 applicants this term.

About the new Participants:

• Location of Participants
  • 24 Bangalore, India (46%)
  • 14 Beijing, China (27%)
  • 7 Prague, Czech Republic (13%)
  • 7 St. Petersburg, Russia (13%)
• Division of Participants
  • Software Group: 48 (92%)
  • Storage: 2 (4%)
  • Systems: 2 (4%)
• Gender of Participants
  • female: 12 (23%)
  • male: 40 (77%)
• Jobs of Participants
  • 30 Principal level (58%)
    
    including Members of the Technical Staff 4, Staff Engineers,
    Senior Staff Engineers, Engineering Manager, and equivalent titles

  • 22 Junior to Principal Level (42%)
    
    including Members of the Technical Staff 1, MTS-2, MTS-3,
    and equivalent titles
• 7 People Managers (13%)
• 18 Prior Applicants to SEED (35%)

The next regular World-wide SEED Terms will be announced in email to all
of Sun Engineering in late May 2007 (applications due in June, terms start
in September 2007).

The SEED Engineering mentoring program is getting ready to hold a
meeting of its executive Selection Committee for the 4-Site term
tomorrow. The Selection Committee includes Vice President, Director, and
Distinguished Engineer representatives for each of the four target locations
(St. Petersburg, Prague, Beijing, and Bangalore). They have had passworded
access to the applications since Monday, 19 March. We have received the HR
Records review of the applications and have sorted applicants into 3 groups to
help structure Selection Committee discussions. The 3 groups are:

1. Qualified and also in an explicit preference category
   
   Meets SEED and 4-Site term selection criteria, completed application,
   and also Principal job seniority level, and/or More than one “1”
   (“Superior”) annual performance rating, etc.

2. Qualified but not in a preference category
   
   Meets SEED and 4-Site term selection criteria, completed application

3. Disqualified
   
   Usually this means that the person did not complete their
   application, or had no “1” (“Superior”) annual performance ratings

There were 81 applications and 16 were disqualified, so 65 SEED 4-Site
applications are being considered.
The proportion of acceptances for each of the four sites will be roughly
restricted by the proportion of qualified applications from each site.
Since the target for this term is to accept 50 participants, we are
working toward a selection rate of about 77% (50 of 65 total
qualified applicants).

Here is where each site ended up in terms of the three groups:

• St. Petersburg, Russia
  
  4 qualified and in an explicit preference category
  
  4 qualified (but not in a preference category)
  
  1 disqualified

• Beijing, China
  
  9 qualified and in an explicit preference category
  
  9 qualified (but not in a preference category)
  
  0 disqualified

• Prague, Czech Republic
  
  7 qualified and in an explicit preference category
  
  1 qualified (but not in a preference category)
  
  3 disqualified

• Bangalore, India
  
  17 qualified and in an explicit preference category
  
  14 qualified (but not in a preference category)
  
  12 disqualified