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At least in the UK it just doesn't pay enough vs. the effort required, it also seemed like there were also a lot less jobs going compared to software. The arti
by schnitzelstoat 1y ago
At least in the UK it just doesn't pay enough vs. the effort required, it also seemed like there were also a lot less jobs going compared to software.
The article shows some pay figures but those are American where everything pays insanely well compared to here so I'm not sure how relevant those are.
It's odd that it doesn't discuss the size of the industry though - I always thought of it as a small, relatively niche industry compared to software dev. and while there is probably less competition for that smaller amount of jobs, there's still a smaller amount of jobs.
- kimixa 1y agoI think it's a mistake to draw a hard line between "systems" software engineers and hardware engineers - e.g. I would see myself as a software engineer, but an pretty comfortable with HDL, or even modifying it, even if my primary job was on the driver side. And also as a Brit who has since got a green card in the US a couple of years ago - I'm not sure if the UK is a great comparison point - brexit decimated that level of engineering in the UK - the sort of companies that need that expertise are at the multinational level or have fabs, none of which is really true for the UK isolated from Europe. Every company I worked for/with in the UK has either moved offshore or completely closed down since. And low demand causes low wages.