I don't think the /s is necessary. Many EE's go through much of the same coursework as CS students. For young EE's why would they go into the HW world when they could make so much more money working in SW. I am an EE and I am considering making the jump to SW as my daily workflow is already about 60% SW work.

At the moment at least, you could probably say the same thing about all branches of engineering. Of course, some people just prefer doing non-software things but, as you say, they'll probably end up doing quite a bit of software anyway. (Which suggests that some sort of leveling almost has to take place unless we're OK just doing without new people going into other branches of engineering and science.

Yeah I was thinking the same, no /s is necessary.

People don’t realize until it’s too late.

A good friend from high school was a top engineer for some manufacturing process, which was abandoned after a buyout. He was laid off and now runs a Dunkin franchise.

Heh I was looking at EE jobs as I have experience, but pretty much every job pays pittance totally not adequate to what you have to invest to learn this stuff.