Same. I had a whole career in H/W design, then moved into S/W as a second career (I had always been a coder through personal projects and writing some device dr

Same. I had a whole career in H/W design, then moved into S/W as a second career (I had always been a coder through personal projects and writing some device drivers and hardware test programs). Much higher pay, and if you screw up : ship a patch. In recent decades the rise of SaaS has degraded the relative experience a bit -- H/W engineers don't often get to be paged in the night.