Last week I happened to come across a summary I wrote after completing my first month at MathWorks. This was quite a while a go ... December 1993!\r\n<\/p>\r\n
\r\nI was hired to take over development of the Image Processing Toolbox, which had just shipped version 1.0. From the summary, I see that I spent a lot of time that first month studying the toolbox, looking at the way product demos and GUIs were programmed (back then, anyway), and writing a new product demo (on quadtree decomposition).\r\n<\/p>\r\n
\r\nA fair amount of time that first month was spent getting up and running on my computer, an HP workstation running some flavor of Unix. I read a few months worth of internal newsgroup postings in order to learn more about my new colleagues and company. I drafted a new section on JPEG image compression for a marketing document called MATLAB Expo, and I searched for a cool-looking sample image to use in an ad. I attended a meeting of the MathWorks Social Mission Team.\r\n<\/p>\r\n
\r\nI studied specs for MATLAB 5.0, which we thought would ship soon but actually took three more years.\r\n<\/p>\r\n
\r\nAnd I learned the company's bug tracking system in order to report my very first bug found.\r\n<\/p>\r\n
\r\nHey ... speaking of new jobs, we just completed our annual planning process, and in 2012 we plan to hire bunches of people<\/b> at MathWorks!\r\n<\/p>\r\n
\r\nSo please, take a look at the Careers<\/a> section of our web site to see if an opening interests you. And submit your resume now! Managers are going crazy trying to fill the openings.\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last week I happened to come across a summary I wrote after completing my first month at MathWorks. This was quite a while a go ... December 1993!\r\n\r\n\r\nI was hired to take over development of the... read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}