dejova281 22 points 3 months ago

Engineering as a whole is now diluted with a bunch of money-hungry STEM’s who were never even that good at engineering. Their parents probably pushed them into the degree. It’s sad.

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Buddahriffic 7 points 3 months ago

And AI is going to put that into overdrive.

For a little while, I helped with some intern and recent grad interviews and holy shit some people didn't have a clue. Had one guy on a remote interview that had a friend there helping him answer questions. It was obvious because he didn't even mute his mic and we could hear them. And it was extra pathetic because his friend wasn't even feeding him anything useful, like Bevis was helping Butthead with a software engineering interview.

We had a short break and when we resumed, he had at least figured out to mute his mic between questions (not that that helped, as muting yourself frequently when you're one of the main speakers in the meeting alone is a red flag without some reason that should be obvious when it isn't muted). Only resumed because I was fairly new to interviewing, if I got one of those today (and still did interviews), I would have ended it early.

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musubibreakfast 3 points 3 months ago

Tell them to bring in the friend, then hire the friend on the spot and when they spin out of control say you were only kidding and end the meeting.

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TubularTittyFrog 2 points 3 months ago

god forbid well-off parents want their kids to be financially secure...

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Bazoogle 3 points 3 months ago

It entirely depends on if the parents being well-off allowed their kid to get a degree they aren't really qualified for because they could use money as a crutch.

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rwrwefwef 2 points 3 months ago

diluted with a bunch of money-hungry STEM’s who were never even that good at engineering.

That's all the STEMs now. The actual competent ones are on Wall Street.

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TubularTittyFrog 3 points 3 months ago

Yep. why struggle doing research when you can make 500K a year writing stock trading algorithms.

i had a roommate who was a physics PhD. He quit after 4 years and went to work for a Wall St and his starting salary was 400K, this was 2009, after the crisis. had he completed his PhD he'd have been lucky to make 60K a year and then after decades of work he might have made close to 200K. I would guess today he's probably making well over a million a year.

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