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Join Date: May 2000
Location: Los Alamos, NM, USA
Posts: 6,044
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"Many companies are having trouble just replacing those that leave."
Pay well, establish good working conditions (where engineers are treated like valued professionals not high end technicians), modern equipment and engineering aids and a real benefit package (not one with some half-assed 401K retirement option and medical insurance with exorbitant deductions) and the company will have no problem staffing. It also helps to have the engineering offices located near where people want to live. Many of the bright, young, motivated engineers just don't want to live out in the "dark fields of the republic" (fly-over country). The young engineers we have are extremely competent (lazy and inefficient they are not) but they "ain't" cheap. The bright but economically clueless engineers the bean counters lust after, don't stay that way for long.
Engineering manager and design engineer (PE) with 30 years experience in the field.
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