kmw@usl (Kent Michael White) (11/07/87)
Following is a questionnaire for a class project. The questionnaire pertains to people who work in the field of computer science. The questionnaire consists of questions about work and a general background survey. I would appre- ciate anyone who is interested to fill out the questionnaire and return it to me. Thanks for your help. Please send your replies to : kmw%usl.csnet@csnet-relay Please take a few minutes to fill out this questionnaire. Feel free to omit any of the questions if you wish to do so. I. General Background Information (1) Company Name _______________ (2) Location _______________ (3) Starting Position _______________ (4) Years at Company _______________ (5) Present Position _______________ (6) Years at Present Position _______________ (7) Hourly or Salaried _______________ (8) Hours Per Day at Job Site _______________ What was your starting salary after graduation and what is your present salary? SALARY (9) STARTING (10) PRESENT under $20,000 __________ __________ $20,000-$30,000 __________ __________ $30,000-$40,000 __________ __________ $40,000-$50,000 __________ __________ $50,000-$60,000 __________ __________ $60,000-$70,000 __________ __________ $70,000-$80,000 __________ __________ over $80,000 __________ __________ II. What types of benefits are available to you? (11) Hospitalization _____ (16) Life Insurance _____ (12) Retirement Plan _____ (17) Dental Insurance _____ (13) Paid Vacations _____ (18) Savings Plan _____ (14) Stock Purchase _____ (19) Paternity Leave _____ (15) Credit Union _____ (20) Maternity Leave _____ III. Educational Background (21) Highest Degree Earned _________________________ (22) Year Earned ________________________ (23) Where Degree Earned _________________________ IV. Type of Business (24) Are you in academia? ________ If yes, complete this section and then skip to section VI. If no, skip this section and complete section V. (25) Number of Lecture Classes Taught. _________ (26) Number of Seminar Classes Taught. _________ Number of Hours Per Week Spent on (27) Research _______ (28) Lectures _______ (29) Grant Proposals _______ (30) Advising Students ______ (31) Grading Papers _____ (32) Meetings _____ (33) Other (specify) _________________ (34) Are you the sponsor of any clubs or classes? _______ (35) If yes, how many? _________ (36) Do you have tenure? _______ (37) How many years did it take for you to obtain tenure? _____ Please rate the following according to importance to you, with 1 being the most important and 5 the least important. Very Least Important Important (38) Tenure 1 2 3 4 5 (39) Teaching Lecture Classes 1 2 3 4 5 (40) Teaching Seminar Classes 1 2 3 4 5 (41) Guiding Student Research 1 2 3 4 5 (42) Research 1 2 3 4 5 (43) Publishing Papers 1 2 3 4 5 (44) What areas of research are you interested in? ______________________________________________________ SKIP TO Section VI. V. Business Section (45) Do you program as a regular part of your job? ______ (46) If yes, what language do you normally use? _________ (47) What language would you prefer to program in? _______ (48) Is programming performed by teams or individuals? _________ (49) If by teams, how many people usually make up a team? _____ (50) Do you do any research? __________ (51) What areas of research are you interested in? _________ (52) How often are promotions given? ______________ (53) How many projects do you usually work on at a time? _____ (54) How long on average does a project take to complete? _____ VI. Conferences (55) Does your employer provide funds for attendance at confer- ences?_______ If yes, under what circumstances? (56) Presenting Paper _____ (59) Area of Interest _____ (57) Giving Tutorial _____ (60) Any Conference _____ (58) Major Conference _____ (61) Other (specify) ___________ (62) What percentage of conference expenditures does your employer provide? 100-90 ____ 89-75 ____ 74-50 ____ 49-25 ____ 24-0 ____ VII. Writing Requirements of Job. Please rate the following types of writing as to how often you do each. Frequently Occasionally Seldom Never (63) Research ___ ___ ___ ___ (64) Proposals ___ ___ ___ ___ (65) Publishing ___ ___ ___ ___ (66) Abstract ___ ___ ___ ___ (67) Memos ___ ___ ___ ___ (68) Letters ___ ___ ___ ___ (69) Reports ___ ___ ___ ___ (70) Lectures ___ ___ ___ ___ (71) Assignments ___ ___ ___ ___ (72) Tests ___ ___ ___ ___ (73) Software Documentation ___ ___ ___ ___ How many revisions on average do you normally do on the following types of writing? (74) Research ______ (75) Letters ______ (76) Assignments _____ (77) Tests _____ (78) Proposals _____ Very Least Important Important (79) Is Writing an important 1 2 3 4 5 part of your job VIII. General Work (80) How many committees do you serve on? ______ (81) How many times a month (on average) do the committees meet?_______ How often do you use the following types of computers? Very Often Occasionally Never (82) Supercomputers ___ ___ ___ (83) Mainframes ___ ___ ___ (84) Minis ___ ___ ___ (85) Workstations ___ ___ ___ (86) Single Processor ___ ___ ___ (87) Multi Processor ___ ___ ___ (88) What computer do you use the most? _______________________ (89) What operating system? ______________________ (90) If you could use any computer available today what would it be?______________________________ (91) Do you have a computer at home? _______ (92) If yes, what type of computer is it? ________________ (93) Do you take work home? ________ (94) How many hours a day do you work at home? ______ (95) Would you recommend this field to anyone else? _______ (96) Would you choose the same field if you had a chance to do it over again? _________ (97) If no, what field would you choose? ____________
marki@hpiacla.HP.COM (Mark Ikemoto) (11/26/87)
Kent, Although you may mean well by your survey, some of the questions that you ask are rather personal (salary? benefits?), especially for a mass- distributed survey like this. The feeling is kind of like asking someone you just met at a party how much money do they earn or what disturbs them the most about their sex life. I guess my major concern is that you don't mention what the data will be used for. I think I would be more amenable to offering information if I knew what the survey was about and how the info would be used. Sorry. Mark ************************************************************************ * Mark Ikemoto | {ucbvax,hplabs}!hpda!hpiacla!marki [UUCP] * * Hewlett-Packard Co. | mark@hpiacla [SMTP] * * 1266 Kifer Road | (408) 746-5453 [AT&T] * * Sunnyvale, CA 94086 | 1-746-5453 [HP-TELNET] * * | "What If..." [HP-TELEPATHY] * ************************************************************************