HW Engineer as a career path

[@omarmohamed3473]

Really like these career advice videos, great advice to help me navigate my future!

[@pcbekri340]

Thank you alot this was an eye opener.

[@adaptivedesign8795]

Glad it was helpful! Just my opinions, not always right though

[@mikef3777]

Great topic. Water cooler stuff. Might be good to discuss the FPGA enginner career path which is often launched from a hardware background.

[@adaptivedesign8795]

It has to be from hardware, I didn't see any FPGA engineer coming from a software background (maybe they are out there but I didn't come across one)

[@mikef3777]

Have been seeing new grads that come from 'computer engineering' majors which are about 1/2 EE & 1/2 CS

[@adaptivedesign8795]

I take that as good news!

[@glennkirilow9015]

Fantastic video, I agree with everything you said! 👏

[@adaptivedesign8795]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@Itzz_Infinity]

Thanks for this video sir I'm a final year student of electronics and pretty much confused about the paths Again thanks for the clarification 🎉

[@adaptivedesign8795]

You are most welcome, keep up the good work!

[@Personne-z6y]

Hello Sir, thank you for those informations. Can I get in touch with you please? I have some questions to ask you about one particular field.

[@adaptivedesign8795]

Use the contact page on the company website "Adaptive Design"

[@unixux]

Awesome channel, great video. Do tell me, why are salaries in hardware about the half compared to software for three times the mental effort ?

[@adaptivedesign8795]

Just my opinion (may differ from the truth) the software as a business model is more attractive to the investors because it can be scaled up very quickly, in turn these companies are flooded with investment money (easy money) and they pay big salaries. (most of these companies they don't even make profit) - In well established companies software salaries are not exceeding hardware salaries (or are less) - another reason is that manufacturing (and designing) hardware has migrated offshore and is perceived as a risk by most of the company leaders which are not engineers. Life has a habit to balance these things naturally but it can take a long time.

[@unixux]

@@adaptivedesign8795 I guess you’re right - there is very little correlation between actual depth and breadth of skillset in software to the size of compensation. I started looking into hardware when I realized that the stereotype that outside world has about hardware - that “some guys” are always gonna be there to do it for the bottom dollar like it’s a roofing job (no offense to roofers) - anyway, it’s false and damaging. I found the little bit of relevant hardware design I could scrape with my meager knowledge to be at least as challenging and dependent on fundamentals as the mid level systems development - stuff like storage optimization for database or simpler drivers design. There isn’t enough respect for people on whose shoulders everything stands - literally every aspect of our society is on backs of people who took some serious gambles with their lives and very few of them got rich quick doing so. BTW you forgot the most important skill in FPGA : written mandarin :-)

[@adaptivedesign8795]

@@unixux nobody is getting rich quick in engineering, not sure about learning mandarin either, learning Verilog/VHDL it's a much safer bet.

[@pt17171]

Hi, in the UK very few companies give any formal training these days. All the jobs I see ask for around 5 years expereince. So how can you get any experience without working?

[@adaptivedesign8795]

Unfortunately not just in UK, most of tech companies are run by business/finance people which short term plans (2-5 years) and they don't care about employees. This is taking a toll on the young engineers in particular. The only ways to gain experience is to learn on your own by starting personal projects. There is nothing wrong to put this things on your resume (CV) Don't give up, keep fighting!

[@Personne-z6y]

Hello Sir, thank you for those informations. I would like to get tin touch with you please. I have many questions to ask about one field specialy. Best Regards.

[@adaptivedesign8795]

How can I help you?

[@quant-prep2843]

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[@adaptivedesign8795]

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[@quant-prep2843]

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[@adaptivedesign8795]

what videos ? I have only one.

[@quant-prep2843]

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