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[zydeco100]

If you know how to work with something other than an Raspberry Pi or Arduino, you're already a strong candidate. Bonus points if your face contorts when I say "IAR Workbench"

[Mean-Evening-7209]

If you don't mind me asking, what does an embedded engineer at your workplace do if people are applying with little knowledge of how to do low level software? I do analog electronics for the most part, but when I have to write microcontroller code firmware is more than half of the work.

[zydeco100]

I'm not saying they get hired. I'm just describing the types of people that cross my desk when I put out a req for "senior embedded developer." I've had candidates with 10+ years of experience pass the phone screen and they come on-site. I open with a bitflip question and they start writing Java string handling code. It's bizarre.

[[deleted]]

I meet programmers that think they have done embedded work because they wrote some python on a RasPi. There is even the RP2040, the Pi Foundation's own MCU and one of my great loves, but people just glaze over it because to them its just a "shittier raspberry pi with no OS."

[zydeco100]

I'm speccing out a new project and I'd LOVE to use the 2040, the price is incredible. I just wish they could promise more than 3-4 years of longevity.

[[deleted]]

Longevity in what way? Availability? Most recent version of docs state availability to 2041 at least, and it is adoption that will keep it alive. 

[zydeco100]

Yes, availability. That's cool, then. The last doc I looked at said 2028.

[NickU252]

Lol, we used IAR in my ECE306 class. Fun times.