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"are finding talent in an unlikely place: a college race-car competition." I am sorry but are we to believe that people who build racing cars for fun on their
by franciscop 9y ago
"are finding talent in an unlikely place: a college race-car competition."
I am sorry but are we to believe that people who build racing cars for fun on their spare time are more likely to be worse Engineers than those who don't? Because certainly that sounds like the perfect place for recruiting great Engineers.
I am one of the creators of a huge (maybe the largest) Spanish Maker community https://makersupv.com/ https://makersupv.com/ and I would bet and highly recommend absolutely anyone who has been in any of the leading positions. We have won a worldwide NASA competition, best design for Hyperloop, made Robot competitions and a really long string of achievements and projects while developing people and managing skills. Meanwhile our average school mate can barely make an LED blink with Arduino, solve a small dispute in a team or just about any real world problems.
I am actually surprised that only few companies are poaching them; I have come to realize in what a poor shape Spanish tech world is with this. I am pretty sure in the US with the same achievements all of them would get 10s of offers/week.
- leggomylibro 9y agoYeah, FSAE is pretty hardcore when it comes to engineering extracurriculars. It goes without saying that they've been fertile recruiting grounds for auto companies since their inception, but I do know more than one person who has gone to work at Space-X recently with this on their resume.