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On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 16:45:37 +0100, Clive Arthur
<clive@nowaytoday.co.uk> wrote:

>On 30/09/2024 19:11, john larkin wrote:
><snip>
>> 
>> If they get the DC part about right, I ask them for any other
>> comments. All sorts of things could be mentioned.
>> 
>> With the base looking at 5K, it's unlikley to oscillate. It would be a
>> miracle if any kid even mentioned emitter follower oscillation. Or
>> noise, or tempcos, or anything else.
>> 
>
>Along with a colleague, I interviewed someone for a repair technician's 
>job a few years back.  Among the questions was a simple common emitter 
>single transistor stage which we asked him to explain.
>
>He blew us away.  He knew *far* more detail than either of us.  Turned 
>out he was a shit-hot analog designer looking for a less stressful job 
>as he wound down to retirement.  He turned out to be brilliant at his 
>new job, and mentored a lot of younger people.  He left when the company 
>was bought by a large US corporation with the concomitant mind-numbing 
>treacle-wading bullshit. [Me too!]
>
>[Among the other questions were to make an Xor using two-input Nands, 
>show a methodology for calculating a square root where that function 
>isn't available, and tell us at what temperature solder melts.]

You were lucky, then. Designers typically don't make good repair
technicians and vice-versa. The two types think in fundamentally
different ways.