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Or maybe one year of experience, each in a specialized topic, which are all intertwined. I have 20 years experience in RF engineering, and probably a few years
by madengr 10y ago
Or maybe one year of experience, each in a specialized topic, which are all intertwined. I have 20 years experience in RF engineering, and probably a few years each in sub-disciplines that combine to form a full system. That is pretty valuable, especially being able to head off problems, due to prior experience with them.
- shubb 10y agoA whole career of very short jobs isn't great though. One particularly valuable kind of experience is seeing a project through and understanding how early decisions went awry later on. Some older coders I work with might not have obsessively learned the latest framework, but they can identify issues like "that's the kind of subsystem that one person ends up maintaining, and then they leave and it's awful", or "We did something similar in the 1990s, and it didn't go so well because it is overly complex. Is there a simpler way to do this?".
- user5994461 10y ago> One particularly valuable kind of experience is seeing a project through and understanding how early decisions went awry later on. That's a good take on it, and the application of it vary with companies and industries. A waterfall EE project at a old school company could hardly deliver any stage in 6 months. A software project at a fast executing startup could have gone through 2 major delivered projects in that time.
- madengr 10y agoHa ha, I guess I'm screwed as I work in a job shop where no project lasts longer than 6 months. I love it though. Better that than the same project for several years.
- Ensorceled 10y agoThat's not the meaning of this saying. It's about maturity and development, not necessarily skills.