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.

Community Manager | @aothecomputer CM | @sarcophagus CM | Previous Engineer @ Intel | Play games that are NFTs at functionoverform.xyz

Imo: time spent on the job getting experience and learning from the material but also from others on your team is often invaluable

On the other hand: I will say there are limitations to what you can learn on the job, especially in more hardtech fields, and having a MS or PhD does in fact, help - so I guess it depends