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This seems more of an issue with where the company invests resources than to the engineer themselves.
by drb91 8y ago
This seems more of an issue with where the company invests resources than to the engineer themselves.
- bacon_waffle 8y agoI agree; my point was just that the "goodness" of an engineer doesn't necessarily relate to their impact on revenue. In the particular situation I was thinking about above, it actually could've been better from a business perspective had I not been as "good" of an engineer. I took over a project that was simply not working at a technical level - it was a DSP-based thing, and the chosen DSP appeared not to have enough oomph. I managed to optimise the electronics and firmware enough to make it go, so it went on to production and AFAIK (I'm no longer at that company) has been a money pit ever since. The other possibility was a redesign with a burlier DSP, but I'd bet that the project would've been cancelled instead.