Re: kids these days

On 30/09/2024 19:11, john larkin wrote:
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 If they get the DC part about right, I ask them for any other
comments. All sorts of things could be mentioned.
 With the base looking at 5K, it's unlikley to oscillate. It would be a
miracle if any kid even mentioned emitter follower oscillation. Or
noise, or tempcos, or anything else.
 

Along with a colleague, I interviewed someone for a repair technician's job a few years back.  Among the questions was a simple common emitter single transistor stage which we asked him to explain.
He blew us away.  He knew *far* more detail than either of us.  Turned out he was a shit-hot analog designer looking for a less stressful job as he wound down to retirement.  He turned out to be brilliant at his new job, and mentored a lot of younger people.  He left when the company was bought by a large US corporation with the concomitant mind-numbing treacle-wading bullshit. [Me too!]
[Among the other questions were to make an Xor using two-input Nands, show a methodology for calculating a square root where that function isn't available, and tell us at what temperature solder melts.]
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Cheers
Clive