I agree with you, but just to add some information for the parent (from the perspective of a relatively recent EE grad with even more recent experience in produ

I agree with you, but just to add some information for the parent (from the perspective of a relatively recent EE grad with even more recent experience in product development): a) Experience in product development is almost entirely unrelated to experience gained in school (hackers will say it shouldn't be that way but it's just a reality of the amount of information involved). b) Experience in supply chain and product manufacturing is also unrelated to all of that, and often by some distance. ie. It's more of a business-person problem (er, for lack of a better term--it obviously requires technical knowledge as well). In other words, you're extremely unlikely to find that combination of knowledge in a junior EE, and depending on their career trajectory it is entirely possible for an EE to spend their entire career without amassing that particular assortment of product development knowledge on top of their EE knowledge. So while it's true that any EE should have questions about (for example) battery/power issues right away, it's not true that any EE would immediately flag those issues as problems (ie. over a beer, I'd probably trust the guy telling me he thought he could do it, even as I told him I wasn't convinced). Note that I'm not suggesting any of that knowledge is rare or hard to find, just that you might not find it all in the same person easily, especially not a junior EE.