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Re:Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten ... by stinos on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @04:52AM (#32149092)
We are currently having a hell of a time trying to hire embedded developers

In my opinion that is essentially almost the same problem, though depending on the university/courses followed. To be able to program bare metal one needs some knowledge of bare metal, which is what an EE has. To be able to program one also needs some programming knowledge, which most EEs have. However if you take a 'standard' software engineer then they often only have a clue about the latter.

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Re:Electrical engineers on the brink of extinction threaten ... by nibbleshifter on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @10:24AM (#32151966)
The EE's in both places I studied tended to come out as better low level programmers than the CS grads.

Most of the CS grads rarely touched C, and never ASM.

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