The current state of Engineering
I wanted to share some thought about the state of engineering in the current world. Before that I want to give you some background as I consider it important. I am an electrical engineer who lives in a 3rd world country (Latin America), and a lot of us work in transnational companies such as Intel, Boston Scientific, HP, etc.
The main point I wanted to express is that many of the projects you work on in these companies is absolutely meaningless, boring, repetitive, bullshit, etc., idk how to call it. These jobs don’t need an electrical engineer to be done. Pretty much anyone who knows how to use a computer can do it with some basic training.
I started working in one of those companies recently, and even though I am an electrical engineer, I am just a beta tester. I run tests on an iPad app, and report if there are any bugs. No need to know anything about engineering. And I get paid fairly well (for my country standards) for doing something anyone with only a high-school degree could do. Even Intel has these kind of jobs.
Now, as we are “3rd world engineers” we do these bullshit jobs. In more developed countries the “real engineers” do the “real work”, which would be design, development, etc.
Idk how it is in other countries, but it seems to be being an engineering nowadays it’s just like a specialized technician, maybe not even that. Most Engineers no longer create, invent or design. Everything is already automized on a PC. You just follow instructions. Had I known this I wouldn’t have studied engineering.
How is the engineering experience in your country?
I wanted to share some thought about the state of engineering in the current world. Before that I want to give you some background as I consider it important. I am an electrical engineer who lives in a 3rd world country (Latin America), and a lot of us work in transnational companies such as Intel, Boston Scientific, HP, etc.
The main point I wanted to express is that many of the projects you work on in these companies is absolutely meaningless, boring, repetitive, bullshit, etc., idk how to call it. These jobs don’t need an electrical engineer to be done. Pretty much anyone who knows how to use a computer can do it with some basic training.
I started working in one of those companies recently, and even though I am an electrical engineer, I am just a beta tester. I run tests on an iPad app, and report if there are any bugs. No need to know anything about engineering. And I get paid fairly well (for my country standards) for doing something anyone with only a high-school degree could do. Even Intel has these kind of jobs.
Now, as we are “3rd world engineers” we do these bullshit jobs. In more developed countries the “real engineers” do the “real work”, which would be design, development, etc.
Idk how it is in other countries, but it seems to be being an engineering nowadays it’s just like a specialized technician, maybe not even that. Most Engineers no longer create, invent or design. Everything is already automized on a PC. You just follow instructions. Had I known this I wouldn’t have studied engineering.
How is the engineering experience in your country?
