Hey dude, bare metal C, microcontrollers, RTOS work, etc is still very much being done and well-compensated at a few giant companies. Apple, Google, even Micro

Hey dude, bare metal C, microcontrollers, RTOS work, etc is still very much being done and well-compensated at a few giant companies. Apple, Google, even Microsoft are definitely doing it. Any other tech megacorp that wants to vertically integrate with some custom hardware is going to be doing it at some level too. You can shit out a low quality Android phone/IOT device using Chinese subcontractors, but you need an actual competent team of experts to compete at the top end. (I think there's some interesting stuff happening in the private defense industry too, but I wouldn't personally feel comfortable working on that) My whole career since I started in 2006 has been bare metal C, and I'm doing pretty well overall.