ICT_SLB,
I asked more out of interest as last year I left engineering for full time flying.
I do have about 6/7 (few gaps due to flight training) years of aero engineering experience and I had the chance to apply to an agency known as Volts for work at Boeing,;however the bulk of my experience is not in the FTE field.
I did have the chance to get involved in FTE work from a brief venture into the airworthiness field but it wasn't a particulary positive experience. However for other graduates on here the short course in the Cranfield Jetstream which was part of my original degree was enough for one company to consider me for FTE work (also I held a frozen ATPL).
However if ever I could find a job where I could combine flying and the engineering experience I could be tempted back to the engineering sector.