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A lot of people trained as EEs seem to end up in software dev jobs these days.
by opencl 7y ago
A lot of people trained as EEs seem to end up in software dev jobs these days.
- magduf 7y agoYep. You don't find many EEs left in the US these days, unless they work at a military contractor. All the electronic hardware design work went to Taiwan and China, because that's where all the manufacturing for it is. What's left is government-related (military) stuff that obviously can't be outsourced to Asia, and some commercial stuff that they keep in-house for various reasons. Basically, the US is a really bad place to be an electrical engineer specializing in electronic hardware, but it's a great place to be a software engineer or developer.
- pkaye 7y ago> Basically, the US is a really bad place to be an electrical engineer specializing in electronic hardware, but it's a great place to be a software engineer or developer. Its because software engineers get paid much better in addition to more options. As a firmware engineer I straddled both sides. So many of my EE colleagues lamented they should have done more on the software side. A few of the brilliant ones moved to places like Google, Amazon which need them for specialist roles. I remember a decade back I was visiting a customer in Taiwan to help debug our product and saw a legion of Chinese engineers helping out some project. I knew eventually Taiwan would lose some of their R&D to China.