If I remember that right. It is not that easy to get into the state school in our state. UW engineering departments required GPA 4.0 last year. Kids who had GPA 3.9 or less had 0 chances getting into the UW engineering schools.
But Starlink needs to get the traffic to/from the ground eventually, right? And those ground links having their capacity. So I think it is nice to have laser crosslinks, but they will not eliminate the base stations capacity requirements.
Management likes more:
- someone who are loyal to them
- someone who knows how to communicate to them in a right way
- someone who won't threaten them, being promoted to the new role
Try to interview more senior people, who still remember their C course in an University, or even know what is assembler. Currently, most graduates (from my experience) don't know how an integer is stored in memory.