kello
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This culminated in the Engineering Manager saying to me at one point: "Wow, you have a lot of experience, it's sad you didn't show us that in your assignment."
TL;DR: Bombed a take-home assignment with the vague requirements of "over-engineer it on purpose" because my "over-engineering" was not over-engineered enough even though it completely fulfilled all requirements. If you're going to give take-home assignments please define hard requirements up front and avoid vague guidelines like "over-engineer this please k thanks"
Many people even combine the two, opting to do an apprenticeship and follow it up with studies, or vice-versa, or do both at the same time.