You have an engineering degree, so.... The joke was, when I was an undergrad, that CS students were the last people you'd ever hire because they couldn't design

You have an engineering degree, so.... The joke was, when I was an undergrad, that CS students were the last people you'd ever hire because they couldn't design a system at all (or program properly). The first you'd hire were the computer engineers, aka you and me (of course). Engineers are born, for the most part, not made. Over the past 20 years, this general principle has been validated, at least in my experience - a good boss I had once said only the top 10-15% of people in IT know what they're doing. The next 20-30% have some idea, but they're sort of useless. The bottom half, you do not hire if you can help it...