Cardinal Peak Culture

With a significantly high demand for COBOL programmers, engineering organizations should focus on hiring for talent and not as much for skills.

“Cardinal Peak has a long history of participating in Community Food Share’s Corporate Challenge, but this year we felt compelled to do more,” shared Mark Carrington, CEO. “Due to the pandemic, a lot of families are facing food insecurity for the first time.”

As we continue to adjust to the new normal of life during the coronavirus pandemic, we can now begin to draw conclusions about how our lives will be different after we return to work, specifically how the pandemic will impact future technology trends.

Mentoring high school students through innovative and educational mentor-based programs like FIRST enables Cardinal Peak engineers to inspire the STEM workers of tomorrow.

The Cardinal Peak book club provides the opportunity to dig deeper into specific product engineering topics, refresh knowledge in areas our staff might not have investigated in a while and explore subject matter in which other employees are experts. Right now, the club is focused on “Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces.” Also known as OSTEP or “the comet book,” this academic text focuses on three conceptual pieces that are fundamental to operating systems: virtualization, concurrency and persistence.

Last month, more than 35 former Plexus Boulder Design Center employees convened at Cardinal Peak’s Lafayette headquarters to participate in a networking event aimed at both filling open positions and inspiring hope among a group of recently laid-off tech employees.

I’m on sabbatical from Cardinal Peak right now, teaching at Carnegie Mellon’s Africa campus in Kigali, Rwanda. Aside from the fun I’ve had being in another culture and in an academic environment, it’s been great to see how a world class university like CMU educates graduate students in ECE and IT overseas. CMU’s Rwanda program… View Article

I’m writing this post from the comfort of my hotel room in Las Vegas, where I am attending my very first CES. I’ve been in the tech industry for a long time, both as an engineer and in business development, which probably makes it more surprising that this is my first time here — especially… View Article

It’s not often that you hear from the marketing manager on a company’s tech blog. However, over the past week, I have been busy doing our annual client mailing, and I have something I want to share with you. We like to send our current and past clients something each year, just to let them… View Article