I wasn't really an embedded developer ever but I worked at an industrial IoT company for awhile and used to just get handed devices which I was supposed to conn

I wasn't really an embedded developer ever but I worked at an industrial IoT company for awhile and used to just get handed devices which I was supposed to connect to the internet and figure out how to make them send useful data to us. Besides the undocumented proprietary protocols which isn't embedded specific as a backend engineer I used to struggle heavily with development environment setup. As a JVM and Python guy I'm not used to fucking with weird compiler tool chains at all.