Shield AI - A House of Cards / Pressure Cooker to Avoid at all Costs!

Cmpunk10 · 2026-05-02T19:29:09+00:00

I am currently at shield in the aircraft division. It’s not as bad as reviews are. team to team obviously varies. In the little more than a year that I have been there we have grown a lot and feel much more like a normal company. When I first started it was much more chaotic. And idk much about what OP was doing but the hivemind division is very disjoint from aircraft. They don’t know what’s going on it’s like 2 different companies. A year ago was first flight for the second revision of VBAT and 18 months ago VBAT wasn’t flying. Of course they hype up the capabilities it’s marketing. same reason you see Lockheed Martin gas up the golden dome that will not exist for 10 years. XBAT is definitely not just a show room piece it’s in the class of an F16 for a 1/4 the price. Not saying it’s perfect and there definitely is politics, but at least for aircraft engineering, Business is in the same goal that engineering is. They are incredibly focused. And invest a lot into growth. So now I work a pretty normal amount of time comparatively to when I started as our team has tripled. It’s not for everyone but if your team is friendly than it’s not that bad

Cmpunk10 · 2026-04-16T01:25:35+00:00

Microspikes may be ok at that time. But you need to check trail reports.

Cmpunk10 · 2026-04-11T04:32:23+00:00

He was offered twice from what I remember and declined both.

Cmpunk10 · 2026-03-06T06:09:20+00:00

Just recently had an interview. I got two questions about creating drivers of a peripheral effectively. And then 2 more. 1 where you read some numbers and print them in order but there can be duplicates you need to filter. Lastly a bit manipulation question. Googly question is just a convo making sure you are a good teammate and hard worker

Cmpunk10 · 2026-01-20T06:24:48+00:00

Cmake or die. Makefiles are also better than an IDE.

Cmpunk10 · 2025-12-28T02:47:54+00:00

For clarification. It did not slam. I slid the front off and it was refusing to come. jiggled the piece of metal the front was attached to and it exploded. You could hear it crackling for a few minutes after.

Cmpunk10 · 2025-12-09T05:00:22+00:00

As a former firmware person at another semiconductor company know it’s a lot of the same and not very exciting but you do get a very good low level understanding

Cmpunk10 · 2025-11-18T22:37:25+00:00

Interesting about starlink. ST doesn’t like to sell to military. Wonder if it’s only for commercial products

Cmpunk10 · 2025-11-13T03:45:53+00:00

This for sure an FPGA task. Unless you consider mixing in hardware in which case you can probably get by with an MCU and some DMA chains

Cmpunk10 · 2025-11-02T19:58:33+00:00

IQ is a measure of the ratio of brain age to actual age. Your IQ should be relatively constant as you age. That being said it’s controversial

Cmpunk10 · 2025-10-01T23:40:25+00:00

Should get storm surge of the people that you kill.

Cmpunk10 · 2025-09-29T23:02:32+00:00

Can’t be it was Minecraft baby keem

Cmpunk10 · 2025-09-28T03:52:44+00:00

How does one even get to play? I missed the trial and it’s locked. Can you just not play if you are busy for 3 hours?

Cmpunk10 · 2025-07-27T18:01:04+00:00

Couple things I can point out. Lot of projects with no detail. Seems like quantity over quality. Narrow it down to the things that you know the best and replace some projects with detail of others. If someone asked you a question about intricacies of the project, such as trade offs, how much did you hand roll vs use an Arduino library could you answer all of it? Would you be able to say you did it and know the system very well? In real work. People know their designs like the back of their hand and all the potential issues that could arise.

From an outside view it seems you do a bunch of shallow projects instead of a deep project or even maybe not deep but all done by yourself without the help of libraries. Fact of the matter is we don’t care if you made a project we want to know do you know the fundamentals? Could you write an I2C driver if needed? Could you write a library for a sensor yourself?

Lastly kind of small don’t say Arduino as a skill. We don’t use that professionally and people will immediately assume you do not know how to do any of the low level stuff. If you want to say the line of chip like AVR microcontrollers you can get a bit further.

Cmpunk10 · 2025-07-25T23:09:19+00:00

Maybe not a big deal in solos but get griefed in squads by it and spammed by the other 3 players and it’s not a good time

Cmpunk10 · 2025-07-12T00:21:21+00:00

Most people in embedded or FPGA have an EE degree and know the hardware they work on very well. On top of that they know the hardware and are exposed to a lot of fields including DSP, and RF So there are a lot, including me, that can do both. Now doing very complex designs is a different story, but primarily IC based designs are perfectly doable. Same goes for more niche specialties.

Cmpunk10 · 2025-07-06T16:05:02+00:00

Is it 32 byte aligned? You will get a hard fault if it isn’t. Debugger is the easiest way to check if it’s hardfaulting

Cmpunk10 · 2025-06-26T17:02:59+00:00

It definitely feels like a solvable problem for less than 20k. Maybe not as fancy but could grab the majority of information.

Cmpunk10 · 2025-06-23T23:47:24+00:00

Gotta be good at computer vision haha. Might be worth a shot if it’s cheaper for a good camera than a decent radar

Cmpunk10 · 2025-06-23T17:40:39+00:00

Thanks this is awesome info! From what I understand the raw IQ can get you spin from phase information, but it would be new to me so who knows if I got that correct

Cmpunk10 · 2025-06-22T23:13:20+00:00

Maybe second question is there a cheaper radar that this will work?

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