> in my experience people with a software background make much better hardware designers than people with an EE background because they are aware of modern software best practices.
I know them. Especially older folks. Ramming all parts on one huge sheet instead of separation by function. Refusing to use buses. Refusing to insert part numbers into schematics so they can just export BoM directly and writing BoM by hand instead.
Watching these guys is like watching lowest office worker inserting values from Excel into calculator so he can then write the result into same Excel table.
I know them. Especially older folks. Ramming all parts on one huge sheet instead of separation by function. Refusing to use buses. Refusing to insert part numbers into schematics so they can just export BoM directly and writing BoM by hand instead.
Watching these guys is like watching lowest office worker inserting values from Excel into calculator so he can then write the result into same Excel table.