[aennyta]

If you don't mind me asking, were you actively looking for a new job for 3/4 of 2017, without being employed anywhere? Finding a job in tech shouldn't be that hard, I would think.

Your situation sounds quite like any other big corporate. Lots of people not doing anything or working very little and manages that can be really picky and hard to get along. I am not sure what I would do, getting into that team seams like a way to go, but working with that manager sounds very difficult. Maybe give it a go for few months to see if you get along with him? If not, start looking for a new job, while you are still at your present one maybe.

It really depends on your character, I might not give the best advice cos I am tired of working for ineffective managers.

[John_Cena]

I appreciate your time to give me your advice. You may not think it matters much but I benefit greatly from hearing it from another human. If you have anything else to add I will check back

[John_Cena]

The man is not a manager, he is just the most tenured of the team by a decade. We mesh very well.

I made wrong moves applying for part of the year most likely a full quarter, but by middle of the summer I was applying to around a dozen a day with researched applications and taking phone screens every other day. I was taught as a EE so for entry level jobs I think I was being beat out by objectively better investments. I also spent half the year trying to land a hardware design job and then moved to embedded software since all the offers I had for the former would have literally made me homeless or foodless in California.

It pains me not to use much of what I was taught. Honestly I just want to be in a job where I actually work in the embedded space. Every place I went it seemed like it was going to be a job of fighting legacy code, reserved and silent experts, and high turnover of said experts.

I hate interviews but I was planning on taking at least one every 6 months to keep ready.