Getting to know myself more, I realized I want to become a firmware engineer. Im a recent graduate. Any advice? What subjects should I absolutely master to transition?
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If you want to do some FPGA dev, you'd be hesitant picking someone who spent a majority of their time working on "cloud" stuff.
I wouldn't say it's thankless job since I got an offer at L6 about $500K TC during COVID era and it only took 1 week to team match (while a lot of the generic SW engineer are not getting any team match for many months from what I've heard). It is pretty good IMHO, considering I've started with just $40K a year working for a start-up 15+ years ago to break into this business.
Another great thing working at platform-level software is that things do not change very quickly, so it's unlikely your skills become obsolete any time soon. There's also less competition since not a lot of people are into this, and you can't just go to a coding bootcamp and become proficient in the embedded space.
I'd say go with what you're passionate about - you'll make those extra miles without realizing it since you're having fun.