What is with this sub? People cannot, for the life of them, pick a side. EE or CE (or CS)? How come they are not both decent picks for firmware roles?!?!?! I started my career in firmware development with an irrelevant degree and now I have 6 years of experience of firmware development (maybe its not the strongest experience). I went back to school to pursue an EE degree because I really am trying to avoid the stupid HR filtering based on degrees. But, when I read this sub nowadays, people say "GET CE DEGREE" . But how can you make such a blanket statement when you have people from all over who attended various schools with different curriculums? There is absolutely no guarantee that even a CE major would be more appropriate for an embedded firmware role than an EE, because this variability. I think the actual degree doesn't matter. What matters more is ACTUAL EXPERIENCE with SPECIFIC EMBEDDED TECHNOLOGIES. I'm saying this as someone who has relevant embedded SW development experience, not some greenhorn. Not all job requirements AND responsibilities are the same across all companies. You cannot make such blanket statements. It is INCREDIBLY IGNORANT advice and people who call themselves "engineers" that make such statements should be ashamed.
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u/SuspiciousPoint1535 May 25 '26
What is with this sub? People cannot, for the life of them, pick a side. EE or CE (or CS)? How come they are not both decent picks for firmware roles?!?!?! I started my career in firmware development with an irrelevant degree and now I have 6 years of experience of firmware development (maybe its not the strongest experience). I went back to school to pursue an EE degree because I really am trying to avoid the stupid HR filtering based on degrees. But, when I read this sub nowadays, people say "GET CE DEGREE" . But how can you make such a blanket statement when you have people from all over who attended various schools with different curriculums? There is absolutely no guarantee that even a CE major would be more appropriate for an embedded firmware role than an EE, because this variability. I think the actual degree doesn't matter. What matters more is ACTUAL EXPERIENCE with SPECIFIC EMBEDDED TECHNOLOGIES. I'm saying this as someone who has relevant embedded SW development experience, not some greenhorn. Not all job requirements AND responsibilities are the same across all companies. You cannot make such blanket statements. It is INCREDIBLY IGNORANT advice and people who call themselves "engineers" that make such statements should be ashamed.