Re:A guide to getting started with embedded systems
by Joel_Mckay on Friday May 13, 2022 @03:57AM
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I think the main reason is that untrained EEs end up doing their best to ship product. Since the rise of outsourcing hardware manufacturing, it is simply that domestic demand is now low. Also, most PHBs have zero understanding of low-level systems, and visible areas are easier to quantify value.
Basically, the kids with 37000 dependencies in their nodejs steaming pile of awesome… are more impressive than some graybeard’s 4 C library solution that needs updated once every 5 years.
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Re:A guide to getting started with embedded systems
by ChuckNorris89 on Friday May 13, 2022 @06:16AM
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> I think the main reason is that untrained EEs end up doing their best to ship product.
I seriously doubt it. In all my EE gigs, untrained EEs weren't shipping anything but were there learning and helping the graybeard ship. In fact you need a lot of industry experience and learning from the graybeards to ship products that will actually sell for profit and not flop due to some weird edge-case that didn't cross the junior's mind to look for before shipping, since the answers to most difficult issues are had through years of blood, sweat and tears burning the midnight oil with an oscilloscope in hand, not a google search away on stack overflow.
If you're into actual product development and not consulting work, getting untrained EEs to ship products will mean the shortest path to your company going bust in notime.
Re:A guide to getting started with embedded systems
by Joel_Mckay on Friday May 13, 2022 @08:18AM
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Anecdotally, I think it depends where you work, as “Churn and burn” culture in large firms tends to push out workers every 1.5 to 3 years on average. i.e. any long-term planning is wishful thinking, and managers rarely allocate resources for general DFM training.
Re:A guide to getting started with embedded systems
by oreally on Friday May 13, 2022 @04:06AM
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offtopic, but what's a PHB?