Thinking about switching to software from hardware. I’ve always been a fan of hardware and passionate about it but never really gave software a chance. While my passion still remains and the work can be second nature at times, the work just seems far and few in between in terms of “rewarding events”. I have a good-enough job, but as time goes on, switching seems ever more appealing. I realize the switch would mean a pay cut for some number of years, but I imagine at some point I can blast past where I would have otherwise been in hardware (in a parallel universe).
Reasons:
-Access to lots of high quality private startup equity (think: instead of just another EV or EVTOL or pet project type startup, the likes of fintech, reddit, roblox)
-Abundance of FAANG+ jobs
-High demand and security (always a shortage vs. line of people out the door)
-More opportunities for growth and “rewarding events” (hardware jobs and orgs take years to grow, projects take many, many years start to finish; it seems any hardware engineer that makes it to FAANG is pretty “top of the field” at least comp wise, yet are L-1 or L-2 compared to their software counterparts and furthermore the L-even is “merely” above avg in the field)
-Greater opportunities for less stress? (Hardware seems like it would be more stressful as lead times are long, mistakes are costly, including unknown-unknowns, and often result in long stretches of burning midnight oil and travel overseas; ala Apple or Tesla)
-Greater opportunities for remote work
-Greater opportunities for WLB (in hardware most places with good TC/growth seem to also be meat grinders)
-and of course….TC
Am I misguided or disillusioned in thinking this (grass always greener effect)? What should I do and how should I do it, if I am to make this switch?
TC: ~ 250k YOE:8
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No RTL, no idea verification. WLB in what I do is good most the time. Crappy other times.