From: hope@netcom.Netcom.COM (John Giannandrea)
Newsgroups: ba.jobs.offered
Subject: General Magic Inc, Mountain View
Date: 6 Nov 92 10:02:51 GMT
Reply-To: Sondra_Card@genmagic.com
Distribution: ba
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Service



General Magic continues to seek stellar staff to labor in bliss at its
headquarters in the vibrant bayside conurbation of Mountain View, California.
Successful applicants for all the jobs listed here will be outstanding
in experience, in accomplishments in intelligence, and in passion.


SOFTWARE TECHNICAL SUPPORT ENGINEERING.  Please get in touch with us
if you want a job with three nouns and one adjective in its
description and you have sound C or C++ programming experience, are
good at low-level debugging, can make exciting software, and get on
well with customers.  We expect the person who gets this job will have
spent at least two years working in engineering technical support.


TECHNICAL WRITING.  The people who get jobs in this domain will know
hardware or software like cabinetmakers know wood.  And, even more
important, they will know how to craft good prose that helps others
understand an assortment of technical matters, from object programming
to digital chip design to setting alarm clocks.  They clearly know how
to program or design chips if they can write about those things well
enough.  Graphic sense and a way with commas enhance candidacy.


SOFTWARE PRODUCT MANAGEMENT.  Good candidates for this position are
likely to have marketed database products to diverse groups of
customers.  The person who gets the job will be able to turn a deep
understanding of technical matters into clear, persuasive product
definitions.  Knowing how to tell object programming from a stick in
the ground wouldn't hurt.


NETWORK SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION.  This position demands an in-depth
understanding of UNIX and LANs as well as considerable experience
leading projects and managing the people who do them.  Strong
candidates will know all sorts of abbreviations because they are adept in:

     Installing and maintaining a variety of UNIX systems;
     Administering a heterogeneous LAN including NFS, DNS and X11;
     Unix mail (SMTP, UUCP) and news (NNTP);
     Secure Internet connectivity;
     Cross-platform connectivity (UNIX, PC, and Macintosh);
     Managing fast-paced projects;
     Videoconferencing and telephony.


OBJECT PROGRAMMING.  Good candidates for this position will know object
programming very, very well, since they will have developed commercial
products for an assortment of platforms, perhaps ranging from personal
computers to the one-bit processors you find in a dishwasher to those
big things with lots of mechanical switches that you see in museums.
If you wrote an brain-wave mail interface for the PDP-1 that uses
color graphics and is controlled with a 3-D joystick, please mark your
CV with the words 'Already finished product-- hire immediately'.


SOFTWARE QUALITY ASSURANCE.  We are looking for seasoned software
quality assurance engineers whose prior experience includes writing
and implementing test plans, test suites, test tools, and test
reporting packages.  The winning contestant will grasp that software
quality assurance means testing, no matter how many other things it
also implies, and also will know about:
     Object programming and
     Developing and testing a broad range of systems and
      communications software
       or will have:
     Experience testing low-level communications software and
     Familiarity with I/O related bugs in an asynchronous
      environment, debugging tools, and assembly code.


If you're interested in any of these jobs and can achieve at least two
impossible things (one will not suffice), please send your particulars
to Sondra Card, General Magic, 2465 Latham Street, Mountain View,
California 94040, Sondra_Card@genmagic.com.
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