Thanks, this is absolutely fascinating. I never realised.
It shows though, how bad the electronics industry is in UK, when Electronics engineers from Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Denmark, Switzerland…never come to work in UK even though they speak fluent English.
I have worked in some 39 different UK electronics depts , all over UK, and never met a single National of those countries.
…I tell a lie, I did meet some young French Electronic engineer’s who had come over to Alstom in UK but only on short internments…...oh....and two young Austrian electronics engineers at Tridonic, who were also over on short internments.......but that was all........................i think all of them were counting the days before they could get back over to the mainland Europe though.
…oh, and once I worked near Bicester and the 18 year old German son of the German guy who was buying us out came over for a 3 month summer job once…prior to him doing his EE degree in Germany………….he was amazingly intelligent….he could code in C……I taught him Buck and Boost LED driver design and he was off laying out his own boards in days…..i didn’t at first believe him when he said he understood, so I put a deliberate typo in the excel calculations sheet…he amazed me by spotting it straight away and giving the correction….if all German teens are like that….then no wonder they dont want to come to UK....and no wonder many of my British EE colleagues dont get accepted for their German EE job applications.