What Type Of Person Thrives In The Technology Industry According To A System Engineer At Raytheon Technologies
To thrive in the systems engineering industry at a company like Raytheon Technologies, a person needs "a lot of confidence and also a lot of creativity," especially when facing unexpected problems and pitching ideas to a more experienced workforce. The ability to "think outside the box" and creatively solve problems, even after setbacks, is crucial for success.
Confidence, Creativity, Problem-Solving, Resilience, Adaptability
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Cesar Cabrera
System Engineer
Raytheon Technologies
California State University, Long Beach
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Engineering - Mechanical
Aerospace, Aviation & Defense, Government & Public Sector
Product / Service / Software Development and Management
Honors Student, First Generation College Student
Video Highlights
1. Confidence to pitch ideas and present solutions to senior engineers.
2. Creativity and problem-solving skills to overcome unexpected challenges.
3. Ability to handle setbacks and think outside the box to find solutions, and a willingness to fail and learn from mistakes
Transcript
How would you describe people who typically thrive in this industry?
I think somebody with both a lot of confidence and also a lot of creativity. I see the confidence thing because you're up against, as I said, an older workforce. And you have to have the confidence to pitch an idea, right? Because you're not people who've been doing this for years, for decades.
So, if you have a good idea and you know it's a good idea, you have to be able to know how to pitch it and be confident in the way you pitch it. But you also have to be creative because, like I said, there are a lot of problems that you're going to encounter that you probably never imagined you would have.
Even if you run all your simulations and they look perfect, there's always something that goes wrong. That's something that I noticed. You're never going to go into a lab and just plug things in and have it work perfectly. You're going to be in there, you're going to want to tear your hair out.
So you have to be ready to kind of take those failures. You have to be ready to fail, right? You can't just go in there thinking everything's going to be perfect. You have to find creative ways around that. It's not like you can just plug something in, test, fail, go Google it, and then come back. You can Google parts of it, definitely, to help you get to a solution, but you have to really think outside the box.