Network Engineer at AT&T
Asking for a friend who is interested in internships. Where are network engineers paid the most. Where would you say has the most interesting job. My friend is looking at an internship at AT&T Sunnyvale. Is the work interesting there? Would you recommend it? Would love to hear from people in the same industry.
If your friend is looking at telecom, I’d say look to T-Mobile. I, of course, am somewhat biased but given the fact that T-Mobile actually has a plan for network expansion between our 600 MHz deployment, 5G deployment, some smaller network related projects, and oh yeah, shutting down and converting the Sprint network of the merger is approved, I would think it would be a better long term opportunity. Not to mention it’s looking like AT&T is cutting 7,000 jobs come Monday. Not the sort of place I’d want to be.
thanks for your advice. I guess I'll tell them to look into each of the telecom companies since they might be doing things differently!!
The TDP program is pretty good. Pay is good, not the best but competitive. Don’t expect to touch any equipment. You will like do some sort of capacity management or space planning in central offices. Might be doing outside plant design.
Thanks. Do any other programs come in mind that my friend should look in too?
If they are technical then no TDP is the one tech track in AT&T. It is highly varied from cyber security to tech project management to network design. Pretty fun actually
@J29sk4l thanks for your reply!!! Your comments were really insightful. I found that "do you like Netflix? do you like GPS?" hilarious!!!! You mentioned that HW companies also have network engineers too. Do you think working as a network engineer at a telecom company is more interesting? Is the scope of the work larger? Or should my friend just choose based on pay?
I would pick based off the kind of experience they expect to receive. Better experience = better full time options when graduating
What exactly is network engineering? Is that like an electrical engineer with a networking focus or just the guys that plug in the cables and provision routers?
It looks like you need to be a computer science major for this job title. I doubt they are just plugging in cables. hahaha. Let us know if you are a network engineer what you do? I'm curious as well.
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