Matsuura USA Applications Engineer

[CNCAppsJames]

Matsuura USA is looking for a 5-Axis Applications Engineer.

It's a great job. I've got probably got 22-ish years of being an AE and it's been very fulfilling. 

DM me is you have any questions about the job.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/matsuura-machinery-usa-inc-_now-hiring-activity-6983725860906291200-PUth?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android

[Brad St]

James, just curious if this was filled and how long or how many applicants you had for the position? If you can share. With the labor market as it is was there anyone really ready to fill a position like this?

[CNCAppsJames]

To the best of my knowledge the position is still open. Number of applicants I do not know. This is a direct Matsuura position. I only work for a Matsuura distributor and they asked me to put the word out there.

The labor market is a dream right now for highly skilled people. More open positions than people available/willing to fill them.

My company has been actively looking to fill an AE position in the NorCal Bay Area for probably over a year. Money is NOT the issue either. Few people want to be THE guy and even fewer people want to learn to be THE guy. And NOBODY wants to move TO the Bay Area. Most are looking to get out.

[JParis]

For the programming position I was trying to fill, I got 8 resumes. Of those 3 were not skilled enough. 4 those looked to be skilled enough...

I wound up hiring an internal candidate. He'll need some work but he's young, he's invested time & money into himself and wants to learn and succeed.

The CFO, coincidently stopped by me today and commended my choice.

[Brad St]

Thanks for sharing, we're seeing the same thing up here in the twin cities of MN and I was curious.

[CNCAppsJames]

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I wound up hiring an internal candidate. He'll need some work but he's young, he's invested time & money into himself and wants to learn and succeed.

The CFO, coincidently stopped by me today and commended my choice.

That's a SOLID long game move by hiring the internal candidate @JParis .

That does a number of things for your organization;

• Shows the rest of the employees that if they are willing to put in the work, they don't have to jump ship to make moves
• Shows the guy you hired that hard work pays off
• Hiring internally means you don't have to train the culture into them
• etc...

[YoDoug]

Money is NOT the issue either. Few people want to be THE guy and even fewer people want to learn to be THE guy. And NOBODY wants to move TO the Bay Area. Most are looking to get out.

In MN a good AE can make a six figure income. My house is 2500 Sq ft, 5bd, 3bath, .3 acre lot, safe neighborhood, 40 minutes from downtown MPLS, can be bought for $350k. The same house within 40 minutes of the bay area would be $1m+. Unless the salary is $300k or more it is a money issue.

[CNCAppsJames]

In MN a good AE can make a six figure income. My house is 2500 Sq ft, 5bd, 3bath, .3 acre lot, safe neighborhood, 40 minutes from downtown MPLS, can be bought for $350k. The same house within 40 minutes of the bay area would be $1m+. Unless the salary is $300k or more it is a money issue.

You're assuming someone out of state is coming. Few are moving TO this shithole. Kommieforniastan LOST 2 Congressional seats because the population is DECREASING. 

Anyway, the salary my company would be offering to an individual is more than they would be making in a machine shop in the bay area as a machinist and probably on par with if not more than what a programmer would be making. So no, money isn't the issue. 

But to your point the same house in the Bay Area likely $2m IF you could even find .3 acres. You're a little light there sparky. 😜

Home prices here in the People's Republik of Kommieforniastan are absurd ESPECIALLY when you consider all the negatives; high crime, high taxes, ridiculous regulatory culture, political climate is caustic, insane car registration fees, the list goes on, and on, and on, and on. About the only plusses left are the weather/climate, and food variety, I mean there's other plusses depending on what you like, but if you were to earnestly sit down with a spreadsheet and mark the plusses and minuses, the minuses would far outweigh the plusses. There's pockets that aren't bad, but LA, San Franfecesco Baybarea are literally 3rd World Banana Republics. I've been to a few 3rd World countries and they were FAR cleaner than LA and SF. 

Back to the main point, few want the AE job and it's too bad. It's a great gig. 

[YoDoug]

You're assuming someone out of state is coming. Few are moving TO this shithole. Kommieforniastan LOST 2 Congressional seats because the population is DECREASING.

Anyway, the salary my company would be offering to an individual is more than they would be making in a machine shop in the bay area as a machinist and probably on par with if not more than what a programmer would be making. So no, money isn't the issue.

But to your point the same house in the Bay Area likely $2m IF you could even find .3 acres. You're a little light there sparky. 😜

Home prices here in the People's Republik of Kommieforniastan are absurd ESPECIALLY when you consider all the negatives; high crime, high taxes, ridiculous regulatory culture, political climate is caustic, insane car registration fees, the list goes on, and on, and on, and on. About the only plusses left are the weather/climate, and food variety, I mean there's other plusses depending on what you like, but if you were to earnestly sit down with a spreadsheet and mark the plusses and minuses, the minuses would far outweigh the plusses. There's pockets that aren't bad, but LA, San Franfecesco Baybarea are literally 3rd World Banana Republics. I've been to a few 3rd World countries and they were FAR cleaner than LA and SF.

Back to the main point, few want the AE job and it's too bad. It's a great gig.

I disagree. All of the Dist here have been able to fill their open AE positions. Why would someone in the Bay area want to spend the time and effort to become "the guy" when the pay for guy is not enough to buy a home and raise a family. Guys like you and I are lucky in that we got into the housing market years ago and rode the values up. To attract someone young they need to feel like it will allow them to get to financial place you and I are when they have put in their time. The insanely high cost of living in most coastal sates doesn't make that possible at current pay rates.

[CNCAppsJames]

NOBODY can pay a kid $300k. That doesn't even make sense. NOBODY is paying AE's $300k anywhere regardless of experience.

[YoDoug]

NOBODY can pay a kid $300k. That doesn't even make sense. NOBODY is paying AE's $300k anywhere regardless of experience.

Exactly. That is why nobody is filling the roles for the future. The cost of living has risen to an unsustainable level in costal cities. I'm not beginning to say that the pay needs to raise to those amounts, it is not possible for most businesses. I just honestly don't know how you fix the problem, but if people can't see a decent future in it, they will not go down that path.

[CNCAppsJames]

I know how we fix the problem... elect fewer Democrats and more Libertarians. Every single rule, regulation, law, etc... has a cost. People need to get it through their thick fuckin' skulls.