“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interviews”

Re:“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interv... by 121789 on Friday December 04, 2020 @10:23AM (#25303234)

I have the same background and I think you either missed something, or your degree was much more EE focused. I had the required data structures + algorithms classes as part of my computer engineering curriculum

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Re:“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interv... by snerbles on Friday December 04, 2020 @01:22PM (#25305809)

A lot of CE degrees are EE with just the barest veneer of software to meet ABET requirements.

Mine had data structures and software engineering as CE-specific requirements (along with a dash of microarchitecture and HDL/FPGA stuff), the CS algorithms course was an elective that obviously gave priority to CS majors.

Beyond that, we had a department head that really only cared about shoving as many EEs as possible into the PG&E hiring pipeline.

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Re:“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interv... by imtringued on Saturday December 05, 2020 @03:30AM (#25312850)

Compared to software creating a circuit design is a complete nightmare. With software you can get away with a lot of shady things but in EE every tiny detail can matter. You can do very simple PCBs as a hobbyist but it won't even compare to what the professionals are capable of doing. In software we have hobbyists creating extremely important libraries that are used by millions of people.

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