Re: yes!

On 21/08/2024 2:25 am, john larkin wrote:

On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 17:13:39 +0100, Martin Brown
<'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:
 

On 20/08/2024 16:30, Phil Hobbs wrote:

Edward Rawde <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

"john larkin" <jlarkin_highland_tech> wrote in message

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Do kids these days have similar guides to designing real electronics?
 When I interview an engineer, recent grad or not, I give them my
2-resistor voltage divider test. Most start mumbling and can't do it.

It is an insultingly simple circuit, and many of them may decide at that point that they don't fancy working for a guy who would be that rude when interviewing potential hires.
There are two aspects to job interviews - the people doing the hiring learn about the people being interviewed, and the people applying for job learn about the people doing the hiring.
I had a campus interview - as a graduate student - with the personnel guy from the organisation that I actually joined after I graduated. He started reading out the leaflet that I'd been given (and had read) and ended the interview when I asked him to stop doing that and answer some questions about the work being offered.
The actual job interview with the engineers that I ended up working with went rather better, though they did start off by asking me to explain how a Xerox machine worked, which is an odd question to ask a physical chemist, though it made a lot of sense when I found out what the job actually involved (and I did know quite a lot of the details about how Xerox machines worked).
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Bill Sloman, Sydney