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Hardware is tricky. I work in medical devices and just went remote due to my partner's new job and move. There are a lot of things I can't do anymore. I used to
by Ididntdothis 7y ago
Hardware is tricky. I work in medical devices and just went remote due to my partner's new job and move. There are a lot of things I can't do anymore. I used to be able to walk over to another desk and borrow $20000 test equipment for a day. Not anymore. I am sure you can do hardware dev remotely to some degree but there is a limit if you need expensive equipment. You can't just build a $500000 lab for every dev.
Software is much easier that way. I am lucky that most of my work always has been pure software so I will probably try to minimize tasks that need special hardware.
- roland35 7y agoThanks for sharing your experience! Obviously with specialized hardware remote work isn't feasible, but I think with a lot of things (like smart home, iot, etc) the focus is on the firmware and not so much the hardware. I do think it may be necessary to switch over to software development but that would be a tough transition!
- WWLink 7y agoLuckily that's been the case for me. I work primarily on-site, but can work from home pretty easily since the hardware I test on is easily reachable from VMs I can remote into.
- coldpie 7y agoIt's not hardware, but if operating systems-level programming is an interesting compromise, we're hiring remote workers for the Wine project :-) It occasionally dives down to stuff like HID, USB, Linux kernel, and X11/Wayland programming.
- Ididntdothis 7y agoThis sounds like an interesting area to work ok. I think I would enjoy it more than the medical stuff.