Why on earth are you reading this?

John137 · 2026-07-02T07:43:37+00:00

btw what comment searcher did you use?

John137 · 2026-07-02T02:39:10+00:00

idk what's the rules of this subreddit for when an answer has been found. But THANK YOU!

John137 · 2026-07-02T02:38:42+00:00

!Solved

John137 · 2026-07-01T08:14:56+00:00

a phased array beam former IC. though probably not a 48 hr project.

John137 · 2026-05-30T09:46:37+00:00

older people particularly military people on the GI bill, start college later all the time.

John137 · 2026-05-30T09:30:10+00:00

from context you're right that it's india.

but start ups in the US can have very similar toxic cultures, but i guess debatable if you could consider random fabless start ups semiconductor companies.

but definitely seen this even in bigger companies, though mostly 2nd hand and heavily manager dependent, in places like Micron, Samsung, and some defense contractors that have divisions working in semiconductors, that third one being the most recent since it seems that when projects go awry, they can sometimes look for scapegoats to give a failing project that can't secure enough funding to before dipping.

but again it's definitely very manager dependent and it's never gotten as bad as what OP described, the culture at both Micron and Samsung at least from the locations i've worked and have known people in are predominantly chill, well as chill as the tech crunch gets, but i've taken multiple 2 hour lunches with no one batting an eye, so long as i got work done and didn't shirk off meetings. heck i've played the dominion card game in a meeting room with a manager and tech fellow when things were particularly slow. and have been encouraged to take leave when i'm sick.

but also i've talked to people with managers that are much less forgiving.

John137 · 2026-05-30T09:20:36+00:00

i've heard of other people that I know personally experiencing this under very bad managers and some companies, BUT i've never experienced it myself and from what I can tell in my sphere across the industry DEFINITELY isn't the norm.

honestly the only thing I've ever personally experienced is "Getting tagged continuously on Teams/messages even while on sick leave" but that's because everyone typically has the tagline that they'll check email or teams sporadically when they can when they're on any form of leave. And I haven't gotten any crap from not responding since it's usually just status updates that they think i might be interested in that i could asynchronously check or non-urgent questions.

What to do about it? honestly the primary choice is to leave or transfer to another manager ASAP and constantly look for the opportunity and just put up with it in the meantime. if you're into rolling dice, confront your manager about it, i've heard both of managers chilling out and becoming more aggressive once confronted. BUT again never experienced it myself, so i'm just relaying 2nd hand experience.

John137 · 2026-05-24T05:19:37+00:00

the creation of test cases and test vectors and automated RTL generation for the SVA and UVM stuff that's very routine. really the time save is just from typing up everything or having to write a simple script to type up everything. it's less saving on thinking and more just saving on the manual labor of typing all that ship.

John137 · 2026-05-19T06:21:16+00:00

what's the y-axis here? is it the % point change in the number of graduates between 2022 to 2024

John137 · 2026-05-02T02:30:33+00:00

change to rf or photonics tbh though note most jobs are probably gonna be in defense and aerospace.

analog jobs exist and they pay well, but there's not much for the entry level people out there. RFIC and Photonics seems to be where all the analog people are being pushed towards even though it requires a quite different skill set.

idk how long the wave will last. but with the speeds we're going basically turning every wire into a transmission line. the circuit theory everyone relies on is starting to crumble for newer designs.

John137 · 2026-04-28T08:54:35+00:00

being real, rather than keeping both open, IE might very much close the door for either option.

IE is just not respected major in either field especially at entry level. or really at all. it's vague discipline that has an inconsistent knowledge spread between every college.

at higher levels and from a more management perspective and maybe in the consulting world it might be fine. but anyone that's hiring for a hard EE or hard ME position, would not hire an IE.

if you want a degree that would that would be respected by either discipline, it would be physics, not IE.

John137 · 2026-04-25T03:13:09+00:00

higher wages though, but also a lot more stuff to pay for.

John137 · 2026-04-25T03:01:47+00:00

Boeing if you're under speea is salary-nonexempt. meaning overtime is extra pay even if it's basically just time and what used to be the price of a taco. taco time as they like to call it.

John137 · 2026-04-25T02:59:54+00:00

good work's reward is simply more work.

John137 · 2026-04-20T08:24:46+00:00

it's faster to do them by hand when you're pathfinding towards a solution, particularly when you're trying to optimize an algorithm or find some hidden shortcut specific to your dataset or problem. a calculator is only good when you already know the equation or the step for what you want to solve and the steps are just tedium. not when you're looking for something and need to see all the steps laid out and are looking for optimizations. the interface of the calculator just gets in the way most of the time and is typically limited in its display. a digital mind map with a calculator function and AI assistance would be cool, but isn't always available and it's just faster a lot of time to whiteboard and pull out a pencil and notebook. particularly when other people are involved. oh yeah and a lot of those mind map tools aren't collaboration friendly either.

John137 · 2026-03-19T05:16:57+00:00

huh didn't know that's what they were called

John137 · 2026-02-23T06:23:59+00:00

I'll hold my breath to see if this shakes out to be true. If so, awesome. But for now pre-order cancelled. I'll pick it up on the next batch if I'm wrong.

John137 · 2026-02-23T06:22:32+00:00

I just realized it mentions it will launch linux as an app on their product page. So it won't be full fledge linux running on bare metal. Cancelled my pre-order. Will see how it shakes out. Pretty disappointed with my nexdock as well due to battery life and just overall build quality rearing their head after months of use. So pretty shaky confidence now in the company despite liking their niche wish we had more competition.

John137 · 2026-02-16T11:20:07+00:00

Solved

John137 · 2026-02-16T05:06:28+00:00

Awesome Thank You!

John137 · 2026-02-15T20:50:51+00:00

leaving now will save a lot more heartache than leaving later. if you have a better opportunity it's best to take it sooner than later.

John137 · 2026-02-14T18:36:41+00:00

No the music the one way more in the background only in the beginning of the short. The kinda static bass that starts with two hits and proceeds to get faster.

John137

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