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Re:Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple by varjag on Monday May 22, 2023 @03:53AM (#36028562)
Rule of thumb is the worse an engineer is the sooner they try to make a dash into management or other non-coding role. Doing the job you're not cut for is incredibly stressful and humiliating.
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Re:Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple by Brusco_RF on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @07:38PM (#36052194)
It happens before entering the workforce too. I can't tell you how many of my classmates left the EE department for the business school riiiight around the time when circuit parameters went from being scalars to vectors
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