cobra satellite engineers

[satscaner]

I've just had the interview been given the talk, you can earn this ect ect

Guy's whats the real story? what is it really like working for cobra? how much do you get paid when there training you up for SKY?

Please let me know as much as you can...

 

[Rd100]

Other people have said on other forums that the company is a joke, What training do they want to give to install a very small basic RX only antenna it seems a joke aswell,

Working for them all you have to do is install the same little dish on the same satellite every day and have got to do loads of installs a day,

Myself i would rather work on a burger van it would be more fun and just as good pay if not maybe more

Satscaner if you have installed your own dishes in the past i would say you already know more than any one at cobra at the moment,

My advise from people i know and who work & have worked for sky & there contractors get a job in retail or a factory you will make more money and be more happy

I've just had the interview been given the talk, you can earn this ect ect

Guy's whats the real story? what is it really like working for cobra? how much do you get paid when there training you up for SKY?

Please let me know as much as you can...

 

[satscaner]

I was wonder why it took 2 weeks to teach you how to install a mini dish and a box??????

I've Installed my own fixed dish pointing at 28.2 along with an offset 1.m and now a 1.2m prime focus dish. This is my H-H motorissed system all set up with a spirit level, a compass some patiance and a spanner.

Oh and they wanted to take aprox £600 out of my wage to pay for a drill and meter.

 

[wod]

lol why'd you want to work for them ?

 

[rolfw]

You have to pay for your own drill and meter?

 

[satscaner]

Yep got to pay for your own meter and drill.....

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lol why'd you want to work for them ?

Im an electrician working in the maintenance side of the job which I've been doing for 9 years now, But I'm bord of that now. I saw the job in the paper for cobra an thought I'd give it a go.

 

[Analoguesat]

Yep got to pay for your own meter and drill.....

Wave a screwfix catalogue at them as you tell them to take a long walk down a short pier

 

[wod]

yeah if you take the job buy your own meter and drill will be much cheaper

 

[Rd100]

Most sky contractors have to buy there own meter and coax cable & T&K'S and you get some you only get paid per job and If the sky receiver or lnb/dish has a fault with it's first week or so you do not get paid for the job and have to go out and put it right,

 

[satscaner]

At the moment I think I'd be stupid to leave the job I'm in as there are a lot more benefts here than what cobra offer me. Pluss I think I would have to be doing 8 - 10 installs/jobs a day to earn the money I'm on at the moment.