@jawwwn_@60Minutes There is obviously no βdegreeβ you can get from a university that actually teaches you how to make an orbital rocket, as none of the professors know how to do it!
This is great advice if you want to work in any industry.
Show me your personal projects.
Show me this is what you would be doing regardless of if someone is paying you or not.
I'll gladly pay you to keep doing it.
This is fantastic advice if you want to work anywhere in aerospace. 100% agree on the project thing, build something cool document the process, and use your project as your resume. It doesn't have to be novel, just build something! Show that you have more than just head knowledge.
Agile/Scrum is maladjusted to the needs of hardware development and it's borderline negligent to apply that logic to building anything physical. It's a fraud perpetuated by low-IQ ladder climbers that need to justify their existence.
Stop pushing paper and start touching metal
That's a gut punch to all the hard working folks at Blue.
But what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and I'm looking forward to them coming back stronger
I interview dozens/hundreds of new grads, nearly every day of the year. These are people with a well-formatted resume and a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from well-regarded US universities and a GPA above 3.6. The majority cannot engineer, cannot function independently, cannot answer basic technical questions. We have watered down standards and inflated grades to the point that a bright, enthusiastic student spending four years in school sends almost no signal at all.
What does? Hard evidence of actually building stuff. There is no substitute for actually doing the thing.
this is a really important point. when we started Hermeus, there was nowhere to hire from. Nowhere did engineers get multiple reps at aircraft development in years instead of decades. They used to exist, but they're all dead now. We had to build the discipline from scratch
every god-fearing generation of men maintain and uphold The Wire Box, a strategic reserve of technical entropy from which the anonymous will rise up and become the prophesied Chosen Wire in Our Time of Need.
When I interview candidates, I always ask about their willingness to work in the factory.
One said he was a researcher, not a factory worker, so I asked how he measured part-to-part variance for a part on his resume. He could not explain. All he had done was training without considering the data distribution from different manufacturing processes.
In our realm, you do whatever it takes to understand a problem. If it involves chemistry, you learn chemistry. If it involves aerodynamics, you learn aerodynamics. There is nothing you cannot learn or do. Thus, the distinction between research and engineering is extremely blurred.