Salloum wrotevegetaleb wroteStarting salary of 1200$ is low?
In Lebanon business students who get MBA are paid 800$ to start with and won't get 1200$ before 3 years at least of experience.
This is not US of A where you are paid +3000$ to begin
Sorry but that's simply not true... It depends where you work and how hard you work. 1200$ after 3 years is ridiculously low.
Actually this is very true. My future fiance has MBA degree from LAU and she gets $1050/ month after 2 years of experience. Most of her friends are getting even less than that. No wonder Deloitte has the shittiest salaries ever and it's even one of the BIG four, the lowest tho.
As an telecom engineer, I started in 2008 with $1550 ( including transportation ) which was better than the $650 offer I got from Terranet....
TheStunMan wroteWe need
Kareem's input.
The best field in my experience are transmission engineer as no matter what all the newest installations, upgrades, troubleshooting acquires a transmission/microwave engineer. The best venders to start your route is Huawei or Ericsson and after 5 years of experience apply for a job at any operator.
Regarding the salary it depends where you actually start, some people start with a minimum of $800 as trainee/contractual and up it goes on how much experience you gain. It hugely depends on your networking skills/contacts to be promoted.
TOP Telecom Engineer jobs are as follow:
CS engineer
PS engineer
Transmission engineer
BSS engineer
VAS engineer
Performance engineer
Planning engineer
Yo, sorry for the late reply I was abroad.
From my personal experience, it doesn't matter if you have a degree from AUB or LU... it's all about connections. If you've been recommended, you're in.
Working at Nokia was a good experience but it wasn't the best start ( Ericsson same ) - just forget about Huawei, I know three persons who accepted very average offers there and resigned 6 moths later. Culture is awful.
As much as you think experience is important and where you start is important, if I could turn back time, I would have changed plans.
Just forget about technical experience unless you want to stick to what you're doing forever.
Nokia/Ericsson/Redknee/ or even operators don't offer you good working experience ... If you ask me why, it's because they have 50,000+ employees to deal with. Everyone is responsible for a specific task and that's it. Your job is to do that ONLY.
What you get is the Vendor tag on your CV, a very good exposure to different cultures and multinational experience overall ( communication, rules, ethics and experience from seniors )
After 3 -5 years you will start thinking about leaving all the technical experience behind and start focusing on sales & consultancy ( $$$$$$$$ )
The telecom industry is dying and the market is over saturated. It also really annoys me that you can't freelance with a CCE degree or open your own business unless you're Dalloul or Mikati.
Heck, I don't even thing a telecom or CE/CCE/ECE is related to anything close to engineering.... Maybe civil or mechanical ? and I'm not kidding..
My friends went to INSI ( USJ ) for a BS degree in computer and then MBA in France - joined Booz - BCG and left after 2 years. Most of them are directors / Senior consultants making 12-18k/month ( USD )
Well, I'm stuck in Lebanon, relatively good salary compared to the average joe but that's it. No future plans to change career etc...
I'm not happy but I'm not sad, that's the comfort zone anyway and it all depends on your priorities.... It's all fun until the business dies...
But long story short, After 8 years of work in 2 of the biggest telcom vendors, my work experience is just numbers. It's not me, It's the case with almost all my colleagues who threw their CV 2 years ago and never had a single phone call.
Too many things to share but I already wrote a lot and falling asleep.
Cheers