Sure, but I don’t think that’s necessarily helpful in the context the OP is describing. If you bring up concurrency in a software engineering interview, you’re

Sure, but I don’t think that’s necessarily helpful in the context the OP is describing. If you bring up concurrency in a software engineering interview, you’re probably hoping the candidate can speak to different synchronization techniques, their pros/cons, how to implement them and how to use them. Anyone who can figure out timing in a complex digital circuit can learn how threads and mutexes and message queues work, but there’s a good chance a CE grad would not be able to speak to those topics very well compared to a CS grad. Again, this isn’t a criticism of CE. I just doubt OP would have their socks blown off in the areas they mentioned if they started interviewing engineering students.