I don't know of a single embedded C++ employer who'd would turn someone who understands C fundamentals (e.g. stack/heap memory, the preprocessor, concurrency/se

I don't know of a single embedded C++ employer who'd would turn someone who understands C fundamentals (e.g. stack/heap memory, the preprocessor, concurrency/semaphores, etc) for a junior development role. A lot of C++ features aren't used in embedded systems, like the STL.