[SI-LIST] commodity

  • From: "Istvan Nagy" <buenoshun@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 23:25:54 -0700

Hi,

Did signal integrity engineering become a commodity?
Or is this trend about to slap someone in the face?

I thought it used to be a professor or scientist job for the best and
brightest, but nowadays all companies keep hiring people for their SI teams
in large quantities. Most job postings are like "fresh graduate with 3yr
experience", that's all that's required. The "expert" is not part of the
equation anymore?
Did it become that simple that any fresh graduate can do what 10 years ago
only the smartest people could do?
I got quotes from some service/contractor companies doing SI simulations for
us on their Ansoft tools (for a lot of money), but "what to simulate" or
"how to interpret the results" was either not covered or was seriously
misguided.
The same might have happened to "engineering" some years earlier. Is it the
same, or this time it is different?
Some threads here on si-list in recent years seem (to me) to reflect that
too.

Regards,
Istvan Nagy
(I am not really an SI-engineer, but a HW/product/board designer)


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