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Originally Posted by KC911

What about EEs .... they were literally a dime-a-dozen in my career .... and those courses and a degree did NOT mean squat. While at IBM, all the youngins had degrees, but many of the EEs that were older did not. Some of the best in fact. The were tested for apptitude and then had OJT within IBM back in the 70s. I was always leading/bleeding edge in computers and communications tech .... you simply don't even get exposed to that while getting a degree... only in theory. Certainly not at NC State .... and those grads were damn good .... IBM got the cream of the crop from everywhere too.... but the older geezers ruled also.... real world EE. The corps I worked for generally had degree requirements, but proven track records were hired too ... if they wanted you, they found a way to circumvent HR.

But lying on a resume was always verboten... and cause for immediate termination.

If you were applying for an engineering position, you had to meet minimum qualifications to even be considered. Either have an engineering degree or a PE. Most states require an engineering degree to get a PE so most were still excluded. If you applied to an EE position, you were eliminated before the resume was even forwarded to the selection official if you did not meet those requirements (no computer science degree etc. allowed... unless you had taken essentially enough engineering/physics/calculus to have qualified for an engineering degree bit for some reason, opted for a different degree. Of course, the eng. degree only got you in at a very low level (Engineers started at $44,740 in 2022) entry level. To compete for anything more, you had to have significant experience on top of that.