HWE vs rest of Silicon Valley
In the recent years while on the hiring team I am noticing it is getting tougher to find HW engineers especially the ones with electrical/ signals/circuits background. After digging more on my hunches i found there is truth that very few people are graduating in said skills as they is lot of hype or pay or flexibility in other engineering’s like SWE, ML/AI, and UX/Apps etc. Jokes are welcome but I really like to hear why is there huge gap in HW vs SW pays? 11 yoe @ 350K tc #hardware #semiconductor
What roles are you searching HW engineers for? I am a HWE and find it tough to find positions to apply to.
T10 Computer Engineering school went to software for the pay as did a lot of my peers
If it was truly hard to find HW engineers, they'd raise the salaries to entice them back from SW.
90% of my class moved to other domains for much better pay, perks & "prestige". Very few people want to do a hard job for low pay. We are the idiots here for allowing the industry to take us for a ride.
Supply and demand
I recently knew of a guy getting HW offers from Nvidia-330K, Apple-550K and FB-700K. Some companies know that there is a scarcity of HWE and others think it is not.
What was his domain, YOE & location though? Would you really say there's a scarcity though? The number of people in the related domains have decreased but so have the number of jobs for them in the US.
Profit margin of sw >>> hw.
Will this always be the case? Considering SW is viewed as a service industry by the penny pinchers. IE at company mentioned in my profile upper management Is vehement to outsource all SWE to third world low COL countries. Not saying I agree agree this choice but thats what a top 50 company is doing. Hw is directly related to manufacturing and there will always be profit there.
What's IE?