Re: kids these days

On 3/10/2024 12:53 pm, john larkin wrote:

On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 16:45:37 +0100, Clive Arthur
<clive@nowaytoday.co.uk> wrote:
 

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!]

 I see the trend, good circuit designers retiring and not being
replaced.

There are more jobs for good digital circuit designers than for good analog circuit designers these days, so the next generation has a wider choice of jobs.
Mixed signal people need to be both.
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney