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I recently made a change from a small embedded company that focused on high security applications, such as automotive and aerospace, to doing embedded developme

by cbsks 4y ago

I recently made a change from a small embedded company that focused on high security applications, such as automotive and aerospace, to doing embedded development at one of the large tech companies. I was making about 200k at the first company and almost double that now. It was difficult to find a company that compensated well. A lot of the non-tech companies that rely on embedded developers like automotive and consumer electronics companies pay shit. The large tech companies all have need for embedded developers, for example Apple, Google, Nvidia and Amazon.

ChuckNorris89 4y ago
>I was making about 200k at the first company and almost double that now. That's absolutely insane to me. In EU I make 55K (considered a great mid-senior wage in my area) and could make up to 75K for senior, if I move to an expensive city in Germany and work at a top company but that's the top end of the market. There's no amount of interviewing or job hopping that could get you further as an embedded dev IC here. Higher pay is reserved for management positions which are tough to get. Even making six figures as an embedded IC here is impossible, let alone 200k+
bmitc 4y ago
That's pretty atypical, is it not? The vast majority of software engineers are not paid even close to that, and software engineers almost always get paid more than EEs, computer engineers, control engineers, embedded developers, etc.
- cbsks 4y ago
  The small company I worked at was definitely an anomaly. They treated all their employees well. I got a very good raise every year. When I was looking for a new job last year I had a hard time finding any company that would even match my compensation. Luckily for me, large tech companies have an absurd amount of money these days are and paying absurd salaries.
synergy20 4y ago
I consider myself a pretty solid experience embedded developer(20+ experiences continously, starting from motorola then, mostly embedded linux) but I just could not pass the leetcode(or similar) tests from FAANG. I actually passed it once at Amazon but was told I'm lack of 'leadership', strangely some of my old team members(that I was a tech leader for the team, and I also founded a startup) got the offer at the same time, I was rejected by Amazon(I was later told somehow one of their interview just dislike me no matter what, even though the rest all wanted me). Since then I lost interests in preparing leetcode to try at other big ones. At smaller companies the compensation is not as good as I would like indeed.

by cbsks 4y ago

ChuckNorris89 4y ago

>I was making about 200k at the first company and almost double that now. That's absolutely insane to me. In EU I make 55K (considered a great mid-senior wage in my area) and could make up to 75K for senior, if I move to an expensive city in Germany and work at a top company but that's the top end of the market. There's no amount of interviewing or job hopping that could get you further as an embedded dev IC here. Higher pay is reserved for management positions which are tough to get. Even making six figures as an embedded IC here is impossible, let alone 200k+

bmitc 4y ago

That's pretty atypical, is it not? The vast majority of software engineers are not paid even close to that, and software engineers almost always get paid more than EEs, computer engineers, control engineers, embedded developers, etc.

cbsks 4y ago
The small company I worked at was definitely an anomaly. They treated all their employees well. I got a very good raise every year. When I was looking for a new job last year I had a hard time finding any company that would even match my compensation. Luckily for me, large tech companies have an absurd amount of money these days are and paying absurd salaries.

synergy20 4y ago

I consider myself a pretty solid experience embedded developer(20+ experiences continously, starting from motorola then, mostly embedded linux) but I just could not pass the leetcode(or similar) tests from FAANG. I actually passed it once at Amazon but was told I'm lack of 'leadership', strangely some of my old team members(that I was a tech leader for the team, and I also founded a startup) got the offer at the same time, I was rejected by Amazon(I was later told somehow one of their interview just dislike me no matter what, even though the rest all wanted me). Since then I lost interests in preparing leetcode to try at other big ones. At smaller companies the compensation is not as good as I would like indeed.