Does anyone know of any Ateneans of Trend Micro?

A friend/former classmate of mine works there. She's an (anti-)virus engineer or something like that.

I had a chance to apply for the Anti Virus engineer way back late 90's, I took an exam, its about software engineering with assembly language programming using the intel 8088 instruction sets... did some follow up after some time, to my surprise the lady that I talked to told me that I failed the exam

Thats bad, I felt bad if I passed it, maybe I'm one of those who you are lookin' for

hi, i used to work at trend micro for their anti-virus group.
i dont recall having any schoolmates in our office.
but the company's big, so i couldnt say regarding the other departments.

Will you share us your working experience with the company, technically? Are you into the development task?

Hi Cyber,

I remember talking about your case before on the Ateneo de Davao forum. I think your application pre-dated the hiring of a dedicated recruiter. Once upon a time Trend Micro judged applicants based on their resume (and leaned heavily in favor of La Salle); something that the full time recruiter of early 2000+ (who is now sadly gone) sought to change. Now we have graduates from all over, (e.g., UP, PUP, etc.).

Just a case of bad timing my man. Don't feel too bad (and don't dwell on it).

When I joined four years ago, I heard that there was one other Ateneo de Davao graduate who was hired. She left by the time I got in -- she was in Tech Support.

Hi Dark,

When were you there?

Adroth, i sent you a pm

Hi Gro,

Thanks.

hi adroth,

i worked at trend during the year 2003.
i lasted a few months til the year ended.
but i can say that trend micro is outsourcing their business process development to their philippine offices.
so there are lots of projects.
i heard that they're expanding big time, renting more floor space.
their antivirus development though is still concentrated in their taiwan offices.
there are a few antivirus development that are being initiated in their philippine unit but most of it is still abroad.

oh yeah, trend is definitely microsoft country.
you won't find much development relating to linux/unix, solaris and the other OS'es.

hope i have shed a little on trend philippines

Lots of things have happened in two years.

Scanning technology development may be done in Taiwan. But who are the people managing it, doing the research for it, and doing QA on it? Reputedly, the one of the best QA in Taiwan RD is Pinoy (a self-effacing, very down-to-earth bloke, from Don Bosco though).

The development geography has changed even further this quarter.



Yup, heavy Microsoft focus (some wise guy once came up with an idea to launch a Linux product that required an IE browser -- good thing that idea was dragged out into the street, beaten, then shot dead before it got out).

Nevertheless, you'll be very surprised at the changes on the non-Microsoft OS front since 2003

Trend Micro signs partnership MOA with RP Universities

Top antivirus firm grants P14M in software to partner schools

By Glenn Santos and Grace Alera

Trend Micro Founder and Chairman Steve Chang, along with EVP Oscar Chang and CFO Mahendra Negi, met with, and signed partnerships granting top universities in the country a total of Php 14 Million worth of Trend Micro software.

“What we want to accomplish with this partnership is to provide the schools, and their students access to world-class network security technology in order to contribute to their curriculums,” said Steve Chang. “We deeply appreciate what our partner universities have already done for us, because they have already provided us with talented professionals. Through this partnership, we hope to expand their capabilities and potential to generate better IT professionals.”

According to Steve, this partnership and software grant is the company’s way of giving back to the Philippine society, especially the IT education sector, which “has given Trend Micro so much.” Steve said he believes this partnership is beneficial for the country, and in the long run, beneficial for Trend Micro as well.

“I believe one of the reasons why Trend Micro is successful is because you generate such good and talented workers,” said Oscar Chang, Trend Micro EVP, to the university representatives present. “That is why we would like to give something back, contribute something back to you through this software grant and alliance.”

“Purely from a business perspective, I think that this is a good deal for Trend,” opined Mahendra Negi, Trend Micro’s Chief Financial Officer. “The best acquisition, as stated by our chairman Steve Chang, is to get something that money cannot buy. Through this grant, we gain important allies in ensuring quality IT graduates that can push IT security forward in the future.”

The first phase of the partnership is the deployment of Trend Micro products and licenses at each school’s IT/Computer Science department. Prior to the MOA signing, Trend Micro invited the IT administrators of each partner university to attend a product orientation conducted by the company’s local Sales & Marketing team (Computex). The company determined that the IT administrators of each school would be the best person to identify which among Trend’s products are suitable for their network needs. Each partner university then formulated a proposal based on the findings and submitted it to Trend Micro for approval.

After the MOA signing, representatives from the universities were presented with framed certificates of partnership by Chairman Steve Chang. Present during the event were Dr. Paulino Tan, President - Asia Pacific College; Mr. Brian Co, Director for IT Center – De La Salle University, Manila; Mr. Rosauro Manuel, Senior Administrative Director, FEU – East Asia College; Mr. Dodjie Maestrecampo, EVP for Academic Affairs - Mapua Institute of Technology; Engr. Ben Andres, Dean – College of Engineering, Polytechnic University of the Philippines; Dr. Rowena Guevarra, Dean - College of Engineering, University of the Philippines, Diliman; Mr. Lakan Bautista, Dean - College of ICT - University of Baguio; and Rev. Fr. Sixto Bitangjol, VP for Academics, University of San Jose-Recoletos. Two other partner universities, University of Asia and the Pacific and Ateneo de Davao were unable to attend.

“More than just providing us with protection for our networks, we believe this is a good first step into creating a partnership that would create a big impact on how we train our students in the area of Internet security,“ said Dr. Paulino Tan, President of Asia Pacific College.

“We have been offering courses on network security for the past three years, and having Trend Micro donate this software to us is very good because what better example can we give our network security students than the best that is out there,” agreed Dean Rowena Guevarra of the College of Engineering, UP Diliman.

Asked if there would be additional partnerships in the horizon, EVP Oscar Chang said: “This is only the first phase. We first plan to expand and improve our partnership with this initial batch,” explained Chang. “But we do plan to create partnerships with as many qualified Universities.”

CFO Mahendra Negi, when asked why Trend chose to partner with Philippine Universities replied: “Whenever I visit the Philippines, I am asked whether the company is a Taiwanese company. If we define a company by its origins, then yes, it is a Taiwanese company. If we determine it by its incorporation, then it’s a US company. If we define it by the location of its headquarters, then it is a Japanese company. But if we define it by where most of its value originates or resides, then it is a Filipino company. We chose to partner with universities here in the Philippines in order to give back and contribute to the society which has given Trend Micro so much value and success.”

used to work at trend micro about a year back.

one reason that trendmicro isn't so keen on hiring ateneans is because
the atenean method of teaching doesn't lend itself to logical programming.

it's a bit sad, really, as Doc V., yung naging head ng MIS/CS dept nung panahon ko
was the guy who programmed Vir-x (16bit assembly) nung panahon pa ng DOS

Am one.

And I know of a number of colleagues here who are Ateneans as well.

There are problems across the board. I don't believe its exclusive to the AdMU.

Part of the reason mainland China is attractive is the availability of people who can work with assembly language.




Welcome to the thread Blue.

Which department and which Ateneo?

IS.

Ateneo de Manila, School of Arts and Sciences.

i'm working @ Trend Micro too. i know of a couple of ateneans in IS and AV Dept.
i wanna retire early

We have candidates from Trend Micro and now some of them are working in Accenture