Shanghai Tech WriterTechnical Writing, Technology, Web2.0, Google, Shanghai, China

This is the career path chart for technical writers at NI. I got it from the “A Week in the Life” website that was put together by some of the technical writers at NI. The website gave an overview of what being a technical writer is like at NI. I found the website to be [...]

The next part of the interview process was a telephone interview with the Texas headquarters. This was around middle of June, the first “real” interview (with a person) since I applied for the job in April. The interviewer was the group manager who manages the entire Shanghai technical writer team. Because of the 13 hours [...]

Two weeks after the on-site written interview, I got an email that I did really well on the exam! That was a great relieve since I had my doubts. They want to setup a telephone interview with the Austin headquarters but before then, they want a copy of my college diploma or transcript. I went [...]

When I received the call for the first on-site interview, I hadn’t done my “homework” so I didn’t know that it was going to be a written exam. It was a good thing because I wouldn’t have been prepared for a real interview anyway (later found out that NI does behavioral interviews which I’ll write [...]

As mentioned before, I saw the technical writer job posting on ChinaSplash website in April, however, I don’t think I applied for the job from the website. I think I might have applied for the job directly from NI website’s employment section. In any case, I had a nicely polished resume on Microsoft Word document [...]

I went through several rounds of interview with NI over the course of several weeks before I got the job. I thought the whole interview process was very intense considering I had very little interviewing experiences in the past. The last time I interviewed for a job was six years ago and that was barely [...]

Updated (03/27/2008): Visit the new job posting here. NI does a lot of campus recruiting and I think they prefer to hire fresh graduates so they can start them off right. I noticed on the NI China website that they also do a lot on campus recruiting for the Shanghai R&D center. For me, I [...]

Yesterday, I found out that there’s another Susan Wu at the NI Shanghai office. That means, susan.wu@ni.com is taken and I won’t be able to use that unique email address. Darn! I don’t like sharing my name with anyone else. I haven’t started work yet so I’m not sure what naming conventions NI follow for [...]

National Instruments is a company that specializes in virtual instrumentation. In layman’s term, that means creating software that tests and measures different equipments used today. The company headquarter is in Austin, Texas, but they have offices worldwide. I’ll be working in the Shanghai office, which is NI’s first R&D center started in 1998. The office [...]

This is a new blog dedicated to my new job as a technical writer at National Instruments in Shanghai. Even though I haven’t actually started working there yet, the idea of starting a blog about my new job came to mind last night. I love to write/blog (when I have time) and thought maybe there [...]