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I graduated in EE and this is no surprise- hardware is hard and Google will throw you $500k a year to tweak the font on their internal compiler. Optics, Power e
by SilverBirch 4y ago
I graduated in EE and this is no surprise- hardware is hard and Google will throw you $500k a year to tweak the font on their internal compiler. Optics, Power engineering, ASIC design, it’s all fascinating and * really hard * and * really underpaid *.
It’s worrying in the long term, the industry’s been built on underpaid geniuses. We need them, but you can’t begrudge them moving to the money.
- PragmaticPulp 4y ago> I graduated in EE and this is no surprise- hardware is hard and Google will throw you $500k a year to tweak the font on their internal compiler Google isn't really a great example because they are one of the few places to get highly paid EE / hardware jobs. That said, there are many more software jobs than hardware jobs at Google.
- livinginfear 4y agoI think he's pointing out the relative difficulty of hardware positions compared with being a 'software engineer' in FAANG.