[simplotek]

> Excel at what? You need to build a strong foundation in order to innovate and to discover new stuff.

I agree. The problem is that you have a gross misconceptions about what "strong foundation" represents in this day and age.

I knew guys who fail to stop and think about "foundations" and instead use that as a scapegoat to shoehorn their gatekeeping logic and as a form of ladder-pulling. It's the kind of character who think that playing trivia games is a good way of asserting whether a candidate is a competent engineer.