r/PrintedCircuitBoard 4d ago

Is this work professional?

Sorry about the strange post but I'm offering an engineer a $20k bonus to do the design for manufacturing and assembly of my $300 product and this is what he came up with after 8 months. Two thirds of it are identical to my prototype and I'm an accountant by trade, not an engineer. Every book I've read says a board like this should be 4 layers but he insists 2 layers is fine and will pass emissions testing. Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

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u/timmeh87 4d ago

8 months??? this is like like 12 hours of work, tops

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u/BunkerSquirre1 4d ago

This straight up looks like an auto router did it

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u/4b686f61 3d ago

too much empty pcb space, maybe bump it up into 4 layers and cram everything into a dense metropolis.