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Yep. 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
by magduf 7y ago
Yep. 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.