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Re:What STEM shortage? Electrical engineering lost 35,000 jo... by robrenaud on Friday January 17, 2014 @10:28AM (#7076216)
Is it the case that an EE with 30+ years of experience isn't much, much better at the job than a fresh grad?
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Re:What STEM shortage? Electrical engineering lost 35,000 jo... by xradionut on Friday January 17, 2014 @10:34AM (#7076257)
Good, experienced EEs are worth 10 or more recent grads. Especially those that know RF and/or embedded programming. But then again I'm in a area that has a large number of EE's.
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Re:What STEM shortage? Electrical engineering lost 35,000 jo... by debacle on Friday January 17, 2014 @10:58AM (#7076408)
Not when you have MBAs making decisions, apparently.
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Re:What STEM shortage? Electrical engineering lost 35,000 jo... by nyan_sandwich on Friday January 17, 2014 @10:36AM (#7076269)
I've heard that in most professions, experience is most relevant in the first two years, then stops being valuable after that, with intelligence and conscientiousness being more important.
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