OT: A description of some of the "designers" here...

I don't think can be that big a shortage of EE grads who know how to properly analyze a voltage divider. You offering a locally-competitive salary?

I remember seeing the emitter follower test circuit you posted a while back. I posed it to a couple acquaintances, one who is working towards his BS, one who graduated, and one who is an EE PhD. Only the PhD got it with no prompting. The others hemmed and hawed a bit but with a little prompting (so the base is at 5 volts, so if the transistor is biased on the emitter must be about ??? lower than that, and if that's the voltage across the resistor...) eventually calculated everything correctly.

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you didn't get the memo? masculinity is now "toxic" and an example of how the patriarchy also oppresses men

As in "he studied abroad"

We went through sex/drugs/rock-and-roll, free speech, sexual revolution, and feminism, to breed a geneartion of frightened neurotics?

Note that Trump, of the three wives and girl-part-grabbing, won the majority of the white female vote. Some women still want their guys to behave a little like cavemen.

I talk to them before we discuss salary. We pay interns $25 an hour, but most don't expect to be paid at all. Most are desperate for a start and a chance for a real job.

You did their thinking for them!

I've interviewed claimed experienced circuit designers who couldn't figure out the emitter follower.

There are many more EE grads than, say, 40 years ago, but about the same small number who get it.

Den mandag den 8. maj 2017 kl. 00.08.18 UTC+2 skrev John Larkin:

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womens studies also have an explanation for that, those women are suffering from "internalized misogyny", ofcourse caused by the patriarchy

there is probably a reason why "Fifty Shades of Grey" is a best seller

Sexuality isn't what we are, it's just something that we do.

On May 7, 2017, John Larkin wrote (in article):

I once interviewed a June grad with a BSEE degree from a well known university (which I will not name). Things were not going well in the interview - he could answer none of my questions. Finally, I asked him about Ohm?s Law, and drew a blank. The interview was over in 10 minutes.

The problem was that he was a football player, and 8 hours of practice per day left no time or energy for anything else. For his sake, I hope he ended up in sales.

Joe Gwinn

Including its tendency to oscillate?

That sort of circuit is something you have to get right to pass a two-year technician's certificate.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Tempco, oscillation, and noise get extra credit, and an immediate job offer.

Ditto politics, economics, and life in general.

Too bad you've never figured out what they're good for.

Sure. Responsibility is taught. When it's not, you end up with snowflakes.

Bad boys have always been popular.

The candidates I've interviewed lately have been mostly good. A very few can't describe a simple circuit and a few more don't know the first thing about transistors but mostly they've been alright. Most fall down on things like switching regulators and transmission lines. That said, I only interview experienced engineers.

The kids are all brought in as Co-Ops. If they know (learn) nothing they're not asked back for the next semester and the best get hired when they graduate. We have a top local university to draw Co-Ops from, so we do pretty well with newly minted engineers, too.

You can get a job with those qualifications, but the job is unlikely to be conditional on you having got those qualifications and even less likely to pay you more because you did.

I worked most of my life as an electronic engineer. The work I did getting a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry actually did make me a better electronic engineer, but you'd have had trouble getting that idea across to a personnel officer.

On Monday, May 8, 2017 at 6:21:44 AM UTC+10, Lasse Langwadt Christensen wro te:

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Perhaps. That wasn't the message of Virginia Valian's "Why so Slow"

but then again, Virginia Valian is professor of psychology, rather than wom en's studies. Her explanation fits with Dan Kahneman's "Thinking Fast and S low"

rather than invoking any particular cultural tradition of making bad choice s.

But you cared about what money could buy.

When I was a child I thought as a child too.

But you own and run your own company, so that money happens to you.

Clearly you weren't all that good at tumbling, otherwise you would have moved on to the next course, and liked that too. Signals and Systems won't have been a beginners - first year - course.

That probably captures the difficulty. I had a few job interviews where the interviewer clearly expected a particular exposition of a problem, and switched off as soon as I branched off into variations of the problem that I had run into in practice.

Cambridge had a particularly mathematics-based engineering course, and while they ended up using "The Art of Electronics" as one of their texts, some of the circuit theory they taught was remarkably esoteric.

John Larkin isn't going to be the kind of interviewer who draws the candidate out.

Yes, it's almost as if there are different kinds of women, with different personalities and likes/dislikes, who value different qualities in men, sometimes even from day to day.