Engineering

As an Engineer, what has been better for your career advancement/resume building?

A degree from a University

or

Time spent on the job getting experience?

I lack a degree, but spent some time working as an Engineer in semiconductors. It looks great on the resume, but wanting to gauge how valuable it is by itself.

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I don’t have a degree in engineering so everything I’ve learned has been through hobbies or work.

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This is where I am at. And a big part of why I ask: Does the degree give some depth to the experience on paper.

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if it is in some very narrow niche (like, say hydrology of newtonian vs non-newtonian nanofluids and how they perform in new materials for absorbing imapct) - then yes it does 

if it is not in some niche - no

I have actually seen things like this too. Perhaps it is really an individual experience with some similarities between ppl.

Probably not in my experience. I’ve also managed people that have masters degrees in engineering and I sometimes wonder what they’re teaching them.