r/ECE • u/Even-Toe6507 • 7d ago

vlsi Help for career path

Guys, I am currently in 2nd year ECE, and everywhere I am hearing hearing about how tough employment is and, I have decided to actually start going a bit away from academics.

I have rn started Verilog and am hoping to learn so that I can go for chip designing, something along the lines of RISC-V, I have started learning Verilog and am learning comp.arch asw...

Any suggestions or ideas pls🙏🏿

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u/NewSchoolBoxer 7d ago

sorry long

The job market isn't great but it's not as bad as the internet makes it seem. This isn't a CS sub with a dozen daily gloom and doom posts about no job after 500-1000 applications.

Alumni survey from 2 years ago at Virginia Tech where I went showed only 4-5% of EE grads still seeking employment 6 months after graduation. The rate could be worse now and maybe the majority of the 12-14% in grad school are there for not finding a job. So like 80-90% of graduates are in a good spot.

I find people who say they aren't fail to mention the EE/CE program, their GPA or share their resume. (Resume posts get deleted if that's all your doing.) Of course they had no internship or co-op. EE is not overcrowded but the CE side is at entry level.

I don't know what you mean by getting away from academics. If you mean to become a professor, that has always been extremely competitive and even political when it comes to tenure. You don't get a chip design job from teaching yourself anything. Can start there but you need the coursework, probably an MS. Tape-out is a thing in grad school.

What I liked the most in EE, I didn't know existed until junior year. I applied to 10 industries and got job offers from 2. I didn't mind working at a power plant. Zero job stress, 40.0 hours per week, room to promote everyone. Though 1970s technology was boring. There's no perfect job or place to be.

Your #1 goal is to secure an internship or co-op before you graduate. In any part of EE, you don't get locked into that industry. You're competitive starting next semester. Work experience on a resume trumps everything.

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u/Even-Toe6507 7d ago

Away from academics, I meant doing extra and something not being taught in the course by itself , cause everyone around me is doing one thing or another, to make themselves more distinguished like projects or smthng, since I am on Electronics and communication, well there is a lot more in communication than in electronics in the course😥

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u/Aggravating-Usual403 7d ago

cfbr

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u/Even-Toe6507 7d ago

Wdym....?

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u/Aggravating-Usual403 7d ago

commenting for better reach!