What's the difference, and why do I think that for an engineer an Engineering Company is the best place ?
Well, the name says a lot, doesn't it :)
But seriously, there are ups and downs for everything. When doing subcontracted work, the projects are not decided by ourselves, it's up to the Customer to decide what they want to do, and from where to buy the needed outsourced parts. But that's really not that different from working for a brand owner, You don't get to always choose what products and services the company decides to develop... There are Product Managers and whatknot trying to guess what the market is needing next. And quite often in a brand owner, You get to design the next and slightly improved version of the same product. Sometimes the change is slightly bigger and sometimes it's just finetuning and cost optimization. Well, those kinds of projects happen in an Engineering company as well.
Difference is, that spending 5 years in a Brand owner, You most likely work five years making two versions of the same thing. In an Engineering company, You may have designed a part of five or more different products at the same time.
Why an engineer working for the Brand owner gets less done in the same time ?
Well, maybe they get more out, that's just an educated guess... But truth is, when You are involved in creating the Company's own product, You'll end up having to do with the User manuals, type tests, product ramp-up, production transfer, handling customer feedback, presenting the thing in exhibitions, making minor market specific variants, being in sales support, having meetings of the Next Generation version, etc. All in all, You get to do lots of non-design tasks. Which may or may not be that interesting, but actual design or engineering work they are not. And as always, there are different sizes of companies, and different kinds of organizations. But my gut feeling is, that a designer in Engineering company does a lot more design work over a longer period.
Which means, that as a designer, You get to see a lot of different products, applications, different fields of industry. And just design more.
Surely there are some downsides also. If You are more Product Manager -type of person, that kind of role is more frequent in Brand owning company, and all in all there are much more non-design related career possibilies there. But let's face it, spending 4-7 years in engineering studies often means that the person really likes to do engineering tasks...
My personal favorite thing in an Engineering company is the variety of customers. From established big players to startups. It's fun and innovative to work for startups, and when doing work for the startups from Engineering company, there is the added pleasure of not having to worry whether they can pay the salaries in time or not... Of course the Engineering company also needs the bills paied, but one has to remember that startups money spending keeps continuing after the core development has been done and before the incoming money really starts happening. Over the years I think I've somehow seen most of the companies working in electronics field at least on some level. If I'd stayed on any Brand owner -company, I would've seen seen a much more narrow field, though in a much deeper level of course.
If You noticed the nice tables, they are random samples of Etteplan designers work stations :) They look like there's work happening. If You are interested in Etteplan as interesting employer or subcontractor, just let me know.
Difference is, that spending 5 years in a Brand owner, You most likely work five years making two versions of the same thing. In an Engineering company, You may have designed a part of five or more different products at the same time.
Why an engineer working for the Brand owner gets less done in the same time ?
Well, maybe they get more out, that's just an educated guess... But truth is, when You are involved in creating the Company's own product, You'll end up having to do with the User manuals, type tests, product ramp-up, production transfer, handling customer feedback, presenting the thing in exhibitions, making minor market specific variants, being in sales support, having meetings of the Next Generation version, etc. All in all, You get to do lots of non-design tasks. Which may or may not be that interesting, but actual design or engineering work they are not. And as always, there are different sizes of companies, and different kinds of organizations. But my gut feeling is, that a designer in Engineering company does a lot more design work over a longer period.
Which means, that as a designer, You get to see a lot of different products, applications, different fields of industry. And just design more.
Surely there are some downsides also. If You are more Product Manager -type of person, that kind of role is more frequent in Brand owning company, and all in all there are much more non-design related career possibilies there. But let's face it, spending 4-7 years in engineering studies often means that the person really likes to do engineering tasks...
My personal favorite thing in an Engineering company is the variety of customers. From established big players to startups. It's fun and innovative to work for startups, and when doing work for the startups from Engineering company, there is the added pleasure of not having to worry whether they can pay the salaries in time or not... Of course the Engineering company also needs the bills paied, but one has to remember that startups money spending keeps continuing after the core development has been done and before the incoming money really starts happening. Over the years I think I've somehow seen most of the companies working in electronics field at least on some level. If I'd stayed on any Brand owner -company, I would've seen seen a much more narrow field, though in a much deeper level of course.
If You noticed the nice tables, they are random samples of Etteplan designers work stations :) They look like there's work happening. If You are interested in Etteplan as interesting employer or subcontractor, just let me know.
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