Sep 2019 – Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Joined this company to see Larry and Sergeys culture. But sadly they had left! Technically, the easiest company..but non-technically ...OMG. Google is a great company for employee. At the sametime it is weird. You hit the ball out of park and get lowest rating for how you speak. And you don't do much but can be promoted.
• I heard some rumor about an engineer Phaedrus who worked in similar place. Here goes the story. Any resemblance to any place or people is purely imaginary.
• After solving in 2 hour a problem that was debated for many months by many leads in xl sheet,but no lab work, Phadreus was termed non collaborative. Phaedrus, can take any insults except, lack of team spirit and collaboration. When time demanded, Phaedrus made night out to help his friends. Angered he went to higher up and complained, why so much disdain for hands on Engineers. He complained to a HR lady " This country was built by "Men" who worked in their garage and ran lathe, milling machine, drill than spend most of the time in XL sheet".
• The lady cut the call. And marked him disrespectful to "Women". .........Time came for another perf review, and Phaedrus whose promotion was planned in writing was stopped. And he was given the lowest rating citing he was disrespctful. Phaedrus was confused to hell! Who disrespected who! ................

Mar 2019 – Sep 2019 · 6 mos

• Worked till Apple acquisition of the 5G group of Intel

Jan 2017 – Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Connectivity ( BT/WiFi) and Cellular modem integration 5G mmWave. Phy system, SoC spec, RF calibration

Sep 2014 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos · San Jose

• Worked till Broadcom acquisition. RF, Antenna,FCC, BLE FW, Chip spec, Reference Design, Wireless architecture, Audio, On site deep problem solving across China, Taiwan. And of course the grilling that you get from TJR.
• The most hectic job one ever does.

Sep 2011 – Sep 2014 · 3 yrs

• Out of cycle promotion or correction once I removed 20% area of every GPIO and 10x leakage. That was NVIDIA. How many big companies do that now a days.
• One group in a big company later in my career found I should be 2 level higher. ISO doing what NVIDIA did they transferred me to a complete new group so that nobody questions their method of grading. 🙃

Jun 2011 – Sep 2011 · 3 mos

• Mixed Signal IO design lead on SD/EMMC/WiFi/Automotive interface and Signal Integrity Lab work for 3 generation of Tegra processor. Mostly taught folks what Philips had taught me.
• Created a whole design topology of dual supply switching zero static cascode op, Schmidt receiver, sourcing and sinking predriver, level shifters. Predicted problems by intuition that simulation by multiple resources and tools couldn't.

Nov 2009 – Jun 2011 · 1 yr 7 mos · Beaverton Oregon

• Solid Wireless Audio experience that I would not learn in 5 years in Big companies. RF + Antenna + Lab work , Audio SNR debug. Learnt from pioneers how to walk the talk. I wish I got ADC design here. Never would have left AVNERA.

May 2008 – Nov 2009 · 1 yr 6 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• One of the most technically challenging phase of my career. In Design output term, these 18 month were more than 3-4 years of design. With only 2 resource in Hyderabad, India delivered a DDR2 IO on a 8n inductance wirebond pad. ( Rambus was the only other company who had a solution at that time for high inductance wirebond DDR2 design)

Mar 2004 – Jun 2007 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• Mixed signal Design and Test. All type of IO and PCB interface. Excellent engineering company. Got exposed to lot of designs of ST-Philips- Freescale Crolles 2 alliance. Old classical European engineering! The I2C designs, RLD Driver, 5V tolerant stuffs still beats the rest of the world by a margin.

Aug 2003 – Mar 2004 · 7 mos · Bangalore

• First Job as a trainee.Mostly on ADC DAC test for a WLAN RF chain, Labview automation, SNR test. Fought with boss as he wanted me to do xl sheet but I wanted to do SNR debug. Looking back he was right as it takes 5 years before you do SNR debug.