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Re:A guide to getting started with embedded systems by ChuckNorris89 on Friday May 13, 2022 @09:35AM (#31367398)
Tencent and Huawei are still Chinese companies though, just like parent said. They just replaced the likes of Nortel through IP theft and undercutting them on cost.

So parent's point still stands that Chinese competitors along with customers in the west who prioritized low cost over everything else, destroyed the embedded dev market in the west.

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Re:A guide to getting started with embedded systems by cushychicken on Friday May 13, 2022 @10:43AM (#31368303)
Mm, don't agree. You can earn a very handsome amount of money working for Tencent and Huawei.

I'd accept "undercutting", but that's a corporate/macro pricing trend, not a trend for salaries among embedded devs in China. I suspect many companies who are undercutting pricing are getting funded by the Chinese government. They're still paying people quite well, just because they need talented engineers just as much as their competitors do.

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Re:A guide to getting started with embedded systems by ChuckNorris89 on Friday May 13, 2022 @12:54PM (#31369956)
>You can earn a very handsome amount of money working for Tencent and Huawei.

Maybe you can but they don't exist where I live in EU and that's the only market I can speak of.

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