You still need to separate the wheat from the chaff. Compare yourself to your old colleagues, do they make a lot more than you? Are you more effective than them

You still need to separate the wheat from the chaff. Compare yourself to your old colleagues, do they make a lot more than you? Are you more effective than them? What about the reverse? There are plenty diamond in the rough engineers. By nature, a vast quantity of people don't know their worth, and what's available to them - so don't just seek those that already know, seek skills and reward them for those skills.