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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It can be an "and" situation - hands on is definitely necessary/valuable, and there's a ceiling to what you can get your hands onto w/o further credentialing. 

Worked with many factory techs/operators who have worked their way to the ceiling of "hands on" and then take a next step w/a degree.

Depends what you want

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Yes I could see there possibly being differing ceilings between onboarding styles to an industry. I wasn't trying to exclude "and" situations, but was trying to measure their value singularly since this relates to me personally.

Understood. I'd say it's extremely valuable, and highly location dependent. If you're in PNW or FL gulf coast (maybe Fayetteville) it's more valuable than in maybe Pittsburgh or Chicago. 

That's not to say it's ever worthless and high-tech engineering skills often transfer between industries (like logistics or mfg)