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Seems like a lousy industry to be in. Lower wages, lower expectations, shooting themself in the foot. Seems that unlike software devs, hardware devs don't
by guard-of-terra 10y ago
Seems like a lousy industry to be in. Lower wages, lower expectations, shooting themself in the foot.
Seems that unlike software devs, hardware devs don't have a say, they're merely drones to their managers. In software, lead dev will say that they need this linter, and his superior will have to either provide or argue. But it seems that ib hardware, management will just say "no", end of storg. You're not getting anywhere with this attitude.
This can also be so in software dev - in defunct bigcos.
- trevortheblack 10y agoIt all comes down to the cost. Software can be rewritten and then can be patched with the new functinoality. In hardware, typically, your customer is another group, department, company. And there is usually only one person to represent the go-between. Hardware design is conservative because that one person is responsible for interfacing a project which simply cannot afford to be done incorrectly. so low bandwidth, and high cost. Leads to unbridled conservatism.
- user5994461 10y ago> lower expectations I can live with not having to do 60 hours work weeks for tech companies that didn't even give equity.
- guard-of-terra 10y agoFrankly, I'm in software dev and I've never worked more than 45 hours/week.