[icefo]

Do you know how it is to work on software in this industry ? Be it for the tools or embedded software programming or in VHDL / verilog.

I'm still in university and I've always liked hardware and low level related stuff but I've heard bad things about software in hardware companies like Qualcomm.

[baybal2]

The wage disparity in between semi industry at large, and almost everything else is a matter of legends...

Almost every part of semi industry is very bad on effort to salary ratio, and players like Intel, or Qualcomm are far from the worst, they actually do very well on salary front, and attracting talent. It's Asian companies who score the worst on that.

TSMC process development job is 100:1 lottery win + 20 years of your life for $50k a year salary. Know people with first hand experience of that.

[pjc50]

I'm quite happy at Cirrus doing tools, but I'm aware that they are an outlier who put effort into staff happiness.

In many other places software is an afterthought to the hardware, and it shows.