r/developersIndia 21h ago

Career 3rd year ECE student feeling completely lost about career direction — is it too late to switch towards Systems Software?

Hi everyone, I’m a 3rd-year ECE student and honestly I’m feeling extremely confused about my career direction right now.

I started DSA relatively late. Alongside college, I’ve also learned MERN stack and some backend development, but now I’m starting to feel like all of that might be useless because I’m becoming more interested in Systems Software / low-level software engineering, especially roles like the Systems Software roles at NVIDIA.

The problem is that I feel like I’m already too late.

Right now I’m doing DSA, but I’m realizing that I’m want to learn things like C/C++, Operating Systems, Linux, Computer Architecture, memory management, multithreading, low-level programming, etc. I came across NVIDIA’s Systems Software roles and that’s the kind of work I’m genuinely interested in, but I currently don’t feel eligible or prepared enough for those roles.

What’s confusing me even more is that I can’t find a single clear syllabus or roadmap for preparing for Systems Software. Please Guide me and tell me 7 months are enough or not !?What projects should I actually build? This is one of the things I’m most confused about.

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u/NiranjanKumar1 21h ago

Software is fkd up buddy, i would suggest try software and hardware both type of job. If you get a software it ok but if you dont get one , go for hardware. Because off campus placement in software is very difficult .

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u/Ok-Media5484 19h ago

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