Currently I have offers to work in MSFT Surface, XBOX, AR/VR and Amazon Web Services as Senior Hardware Engineer. Please advise which would be preferable job with equal compensation. Which one has a better future outlook of growth.
Are you into Asic design/verif ?
I’m in system design which is schematic and PCB designs.
Stay far away from Xbox Hardware. It's basically the same as Surface, only HW leadership cares about it less.
Xbox is so yesterday.
Would not go to Surface. Very political and projects are not well defined right now. Someone always needs to get credit for something instead of doing the right thing for the product. Startup feel is gone from the old days and innovation is not a priority in our electrical design. Heavily PM driven with bad PMs that don’t define what a product should do well. Worked on two projects that changed electrical design scope midway through with no change to shipping schedule. Would go to hololens instead imo.
Ar/vr where? Outlook from different companies are not at all the same. By elimination I would go to AWS or Azure hardware. Growing and stable projects.
What does AWS do as hardware?
Datacenter design.
Kipman cult in AR/VR is real
AR/VR is where everything is headed in the future
Fad! Avoid! It'll never become mainstream like Xbox. Xbox +1.