[bsder]

> It's few years since I was hiring EE majors in the US, but it felt that skilled people with EE master's are harder and harder to find every year.

Semiconductor pay is dogshit compared to software. And everything is going to be in the office at whatever crap city has the fab--no remote work for you.

Any EE smart enough to be good at stuff for a fab is smart enough to GTFO to software.

The solution: cough up some damn cash.

I have to use my microscope to go hunt for the world's tiniest violin when I hear companies complaining about hiring EEs.

[shiroiushi]

I got my degree in EE many years ago, and quickly came to the same conclusion, and moved from hardware to software and never went back. Hardware has long been a terrible career field in the US, and anyone smart moved into some kind of software-related job.

Also, your "crap city" bit is an important factor too. WhoTF wants to live in Phoenix AZ? The fabs are usually located in rather lousy places, whereas software jobs usually give you far more choices for places to live. There's software jobs virtually everywhere these days.