[tomasGiden]

The job for an embedded engineer can vary wildly and it gets hard to define what embedded software even is. I’ve worked on microcontrollers in elevators and battery management systems for battery packs on the low end and I’ve worked on application processors, many-core processors DSPs and soft cores in FPGAs in telecom on the high end. Sometimes you don’t even notice the hardware. All depends on the job and the size of the company (do they have a platform team abstracting all the hardware away?).

As others say, many companies in the embedded space have had a very hard time realizing they are software companies and their practices are very old school and frustrating.

Talking salaries (Sweden), yeah it’s a bit higher in the cloud but not wildly so.

My recommendation is to start working in a not tiny company and on an existing product. Then it’s more about adding logic rather than knowing everything about RTOS and bootloaders. Them you will pick these things up as you go.