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0 pointsPragmaticPulp3y ago0 comments

> I graduated in EE and this is no surprise- hardware is hard and Google will throw you $500k a year to tweak the font on their internal compiler

Google isn't really a great example because they are one of the few places to get highly paid EE / hardware jobs.

That said, there are many more software jobs than hardware jobs at Google.

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I think he's pointing out the relative difficulty of hardware positions compared with being a 'software engineer' in FAANG.

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0 pointsPragmaticPulp3y ago0 comments

> I graduated in EE and this is no surprise- hardware is hard and Google will throw you $500k a year to tweak the font on their internal compiler

Google isn't really a great example because they are one of the few places to get highly paid EE / hardware jobs.

That said, there are many more software jobs than hardware jobs at Google.

I think he's pointing out the relative difficulty of hardware positions compared with being a 'software engineer' in FAANG.

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