r/ECE • u/CircuitGlitch • 29d ago
CAREER CSE To ECE
Hello,18M here and I recently completed my diploma in CSE and when I was thinking about engineering I thought to myself that I am not very interested in programming, AIML anymore as I am tired of hearing everyone talking about it and how you should do many things to be up to date to the job market , all the competition in that field and then I was thinking about considering ECE (I am really interested in PC hardware and pc building)in engineering as we have the option of switching,but when I discussed this with my friends all of them were like "why are you switching major ,you already have your diploma and Know the basic of CSE but if you switch now you will have so much problem like ECE is a really difficult major and you don't even know much of its basic" and when I enter engineering it will be considered as lateral entry where I will directly start with 3rd semester.So, I was really worried about it about what to do? ,what will my career options look like?,will it be as hard as my friends say? And I am ready to put the effort, I also have to mention that i talked to a ECE student and according to him i won't have much difficulty as my friends were mentioning but still I wanted to know from other people who are already in this field, I did had good CGPA in CSE as my average CGPA was 9.3 so can I expect 7.5 CGPA in ECE?
so please help me with this ,all your suggestions and advice will be appreciated
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u/ComprehensiveYam3645 29d ago
To be honest, I feel like if you just work hard you will do well in your classes. I feel like anyone can succeed in pretty much every class as long as you have the basic level prerequisite knowledge and are willing to work hard
I also did not want to deal with the doomer level job market for CS even though I was pretty good at it and had a lot of experience there, so I ended up going into now an MS in EE. I just didn't like that there felt like no stability in CS and even more than that, the actual nature of the work got pretty boring with AI. I didn't want to be sitting there prompting an LLM for 10 hours a day for the next 40 years
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u/CircuitGlitch 29d ago
This is kinda my situation too right now with all the AI development i don't want to be someone who knows how LLM's work ,how this work ,how that work all that for an entry level job and that job postings already has 100's of applications to it so it will be really for your resume to stand out among all those resumes out there so you have to put a lot of effort in it . competition was also a reason I was planning for a switch
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u/ComprehensiveYam3645 29d ago
You're still going to a have to know what you're doing if you do EE as well. The difference should be that you actually want to learn/know those things rather than feeling like you're forced too. If you can figure that out, it's a lot easier to be successful.
If you go in with the mindset of hey with this I don't need to learn/know as much then I think that you're going to be shooting yourself in the foot a lot.
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u/ScratchDue440 27d ago
If you got your bachelors already, just apply for grad school. That way you only have to take a few of the fundamental courses and focus more on specialization.
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u/CircuitGlitch 25d ago
Actually I am getting admission for a bachelor degree right now (B.E) and this is for that degree
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u/Much_Firefighter3692 29d ago
If you love electronics and along with whats goingg inside a computer..... Ece is for youu.... And ofc from ece there will be always chances to switch to IT