My department (LAC) has tried to hire ME on and off for years. Without exception, the candidates flat-out suck. Has this been anyone else's experience? It can't be that all good ME candidates get great R1 jobs, leaving nothing but awful ME candidates, right?
In our program one ME person was the best placement in nearly two decades. Another was the biggest disaster in nearly two decades. So, for us anyway, ME has been feast or famine.
Yes, you already wrote this, but changed minor portions from the original text without attribution. Reported for plagiarism.