[caw]

New engineers are always green in some aspect. It sounds like you’re combining a number of different engineers from different programs and drawing conclusions.

Courses teach a lot, but they also miss out on tons of topics as well. There’s limited reinforcement between classes, so even if your professor covers your topic of choice, the next course may not.

Unit tests for instance are generally used by students for checking their homework assignment as they go, but it’s the (incomplete) grading rubric. I didn’t actually write many unit tests in college until my software design class which was in Smalltalk.

I didn’t use version control until I worked on a few projects with a fellow student who self hosted SVN.

I used 6-8 different programming languages in school, each for a semester at a time. There’s simply no place for repetition and mastery until you get a job, either as an intern or permanent position—and then you’re the engineer you talk about.

Every new engineer is different, depending on their program and interests, even within the same school’s degree program. They’ll all need mentoring to grow. No one is ever going to graduate and be a mid to senior level purely from school.

[sshine]

I’m teaching my boss git these days. He is an electric engineer with lots of years of programming experience, but somehow avoided modern version control.

At the same time, our fresh-out-of-school hire just started and with 6+ years of FOSS Rust, he is teaching everyone how to do async properly.