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>Also: Talented reverse engineers are hard to find on a good day in any given area Not true. Have you looked in Europe? It's full of them thanks to the tinker

>Also: Talented reverse engineers are hard to find on a good day in any given area Not true. Have you looked in Europe? It's full of them thanks to the tinker culture and the presence all big anti-malware companies (Esset, Avast, Avira, Bit-Defender, Kaspersky, etc). Plus every single cybersecurity consulting company out there in the world, big and small, has guys who can do reverse engineering for you. There's thousands of these companies, just look them up. The reason you're probably not finding them is because you're probably not looking for them or that many juniors who don't have the "RE bug" don't stay in that gig professionally too long because, unless you're a zero-day finding God, cashing out six figure CVE bounties and giving Defcon talks, the pay is worse than a webdev doing CRUD since the demand for reverse engineering work is very low and not valued by customers as it's not the kind of job that impacts their sales or share price so they just look to offshore it to the lowest bidder. I also left the field and moving to cloud engineering since the demand, pay, benefits, respect is so much better.

dagw 4y ago
Not true. Have you looked in Europe? I wonder to what extent that is still the case. When I graduated 15ish years ago it was definitely true that many of my classmates had those low level skills, and serval of them had written their Masters thesis on something related. However looking at people graduating from the same program today, I hardly see anybody doing that sort of work. Everything is either some sort of high level web stuff or machine learning. Even the people I knew who had those skills haven't used them professionally in over decade since, as you say, the pay sucks.
- ChuckNorris89 4y ago
  >I wonder to what extent that is still the case. It is. The university in my area has a famous master's program for cybersecurity and many grads there know reverse engineering to a degree. And there a re many such universities in Europe, plus all the Eastern European gray beards who work in the industry since they cut their teeth breaking DRM to pirate games in their youth. I personally know at least 5 people who can do this work professionally at a consulting company.

dagw 4y ago

Not true. Have you looked in Europe? I wonder to what extent that is still the case. When I graduated 15ish years ago it was definitely true that many of my classmates had those low level skills, and serval of them had written their Masters thesis on something related. However looking at people graduating from the same program today, I hardly see anybody doing that sort of work. Everything is either some sort of high level web stuff or machine learning. Even the people I knew who had those skills haven't used them professionally in over decade since, as you say, the pay sucks.

ChuckNorris89 4y ago
>I wonder to what extent that is still the case. It is. The university in my area has a famous master's program for cybersecurity and many grads there know reverse engineering to a degree. And there a re many such universities in Europe, plus all the Eastern European gray beards who work in the industry since they cut their teeth breaking DRM to pirate games in their youth. I personally know at least 5 people who can do this work professionally at a consulting company.