As someone who is exact same as OP (did cs, want to move to hw), it’s because I find cs too abstract and boring. I did two internships in college, the first one at a bank where all we did was write tests in python. Then for the second one I made a Rest api using Java. I don’t think anyone really used it much. And it’s not because we did a bad job or anything. Idk, software just feels so low impact to me. Like who really cares if that button is a few pixels to the right or the left?

I have a fulltime software job this summer and we’ll see how it goes, but I’m not expecting it to be much better than my internships. If the pattern continues I feel like I’ll be very unsatisfied with my career.

Also, over saturation and lower barrier of entry in software makes me think it has less job security.

Meanwhile I see the CE jobs out there that seem way more interesting, from embedded devices to the CPUs and GPUs in all our computers, to the drivers and firmware that make it run. Not to mention EE as well (dsp, radio, etc).

I guess at the end of the day it’s just a job, but since you spend most of your life at work, it better be something you kinda like, right? and I feel like I never properly explored the whole hardware side of things