"Embedded also attracts a certain type of engineer, usually very smart and able to manage extreme complexity with attention to detail but at the cost of anythin

"Embedded also attracts a certain type of engineer, usually very smart and able to manage extreme complexity with attention to detail but at the cost of anything resembling readable, let alone maintainable, software. " Heaven for generalists that always love doing new kinds of things. Once I learned about it, I knew I probably should've done embedded instead of security research. Of course, now there's significant interest in overlap. Might not be too late to learn all that stuff after all. :)