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I get the impression from dealing with german companies that they tend to be very good at traditional "engineering" but when it comes to it/computers they ar

I get the impression from dealing with german companies that they tend to be very good at traditional "engineering" but when it comes to it/computers they are 10 or 15 years behind. I also think that in germany its considred that the good engineers and asociate profesionalas want go and work for firms like Audi.

fidotron 12y ago
It's not just Germans. Anyone that isn't primarily in software has this phenomenon. Mobile phone makers, for example, are a disaster, and it's only having a whip wielded by a software company with some power over them that prevents it becoming a complete train wreck. In my experience the most dangerous are engineers in other domains that learned just enough programming to get the job done but can't understand the giant holes they've created and not run into.
- spacecowboy_lon 12y ago
  Testify (Brother or Sister) having worked for a big telco we regarded the mobile side as grade inflated "amatuers" I still recall one of my colegues (working on the core IP network) being amused that one UK mobile provider was still using NT4 in their core network. Ill be nice and not write what we thought about the US cariers