On Nov 4, 2007, at 6:28 PM, Martin Klingensmith wrote:

> I suspect it's more like "experienced engineers cost money
> and the managers don't want to spend the money.." what do you think?

Sure, there's some of that.  Combine with "experience in engineering
doesn't pay that well" ("experienced" engineers tend to go into
management, eh?  Or sales, marketing, ... anything but engineering.)

That said, there probably aren't enough "cheap, unexperienced
engineers", either.  You look at the things that companies want
to do, and a lot of them don't take a lot of "experience."  And
yet they can't find people capable of doing it...

BillW
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