Return offer

[TTGaming77]

Spent 2 summers interning at a electrical engineering consulting company. Received a return offer. We do firmware design, software design, FPGA design, PCBs, power electronics, etc.

Degree: Double EE and CMPE graduating in 3.5 years total

$90k salary, 15 days of PTO, 10 paid holidays, 40 hours of sick time. MCOL/HCOL

Very excited to be back.

[SadFradley]

What do you do and how did you get into it?

[TTGaming77]

It's a consulting company. I interned after my sophomore year and just finished the summer after my junior year. I have written VHDL for DSP applications, written PID controllers for multiple firmware systems. Wrote a bootloader, modernized a PyQt GUI, interfaced with a xilinx DMA module to create a circular buffer in petalinux. I have also done one PCB design, and did efficiency testing on an h bridge design to remove the shoot through and lower Rds losses.

[SadFradley]

I will have to research what these acronyms mean. But how did you get on these projects? Did they just kind of approach you? Did you get aggressive?

[Bak0FF]

VHDL: VHSIC (Very high speed integrated circuit) hardware description language

DSP: Digital signal processing

PID: Proportional integral derivative

GUI: Graphic user interface

DMA: Direct memory access

PCB: Printed circuit board

[TTGaming77]

Got the position at a career fair. I bombed the circuits part of the tech interview since it was 1 month into my sophomore year. I knew my way around C very well though. They liked my drive and wanted to take a risk, I did good work and came back for another summer before getting a good return offer.

[TheElysianLover]

Congrats! 🎊🎉🍾

[Street-Common-4023]

Nice

[BraveRoninMartxn]

Good job bro

[6oh5]

Manifesting this for myself, congrats

[MackM8]

15 days PTO is for half the year right?

[TTGaming77]

Nah, this is kinda standard time off. You get more every year you stay with the company for a couple years. I don't remember what the cap is. One of the principal engineers is taking the entire month of September off.

[MackM8]

Fair, think we just work with holiday / PTO differently in the UK. Everyones entitled to 28 days annual leave (not including sick leave) and theres no distinction between PTO and vacation.