minecraft is the defacto standard circuit development tool in industry, be sure to learn redstone really well

>>16714080 (OP)
If your program is in the EE department, the CS profs will look down on you in their classes. If your program is in the CS department, the EE profs would rather speak to the gum on the bottom of their shoe than talk to you.

>>16714080 (OP)
Rainbow thigh high socks are mandatory. If you're not already on HRT, get on it immediately.
Buttplug is optional, chastity cage is not. It must be pink.

>>16714080 (OP)
You may have chosen this because you have not decided to have EE or CS but the broad band from soldering and probing to process signals and designs circuits to pure software development which also means you need to find out what tech and level you like and focus the last 2 years around it to build a coherent arsenal. How do I know? That what naturally comes to you and doesn't seems to get tired and you get really autistic about the tools.
2. Internship to get your foot in the door and collect applicable the job titles
3. Organize anything you did so it can be recalled and presented. Bind them in the right pile at the minimum.
>>16714130
Engineers are chud major.

>>16714186
engineers are often raging homosexual trannies as well, the main unifying characteristic is a lack of social skills and being white or asian (the asian ones are completely hetero)

If it runs doom you can call it a computer.

>>16714080 (OP)
It really helps if you have a billion bucks in capital to spend on tapeout. Or even better if you can afford your own fab.

I wish I did EE instead of a cybersec degree, we didn't even do any maths and I'm disgusted with myself for being a fraud whenever I talk software, I want to actually know things

>>16714080 (OP)
I'm a computer engineer. Presently a senior firmware engineer at a major chip company. If you have any specific questions I'm happy to answer. Jobs where you're writing code that interacts directly with circuitry are high paying, high demand, and match the computer engineering skill set. Computer scientists don't have the electronics understanding and electrical engineers don't have the programming experience.

>>16715459
i have physics, cs, and ee degrees.
any suggestions on tech companies? i've been designing the digital logic for a tile-based graphics circuit as a project to show i can synthesize non-trivial digital logic for specific applications, and i've done fpga in my spare time
of course i'm going to apply to nvidia, but some other ideas wouldn't hurt. i'm also thinking of doing start up stuff, but there's nothing wrong with having an actual job while trying to make that happen on the side.

>>16715474
Working at a startup is awful. It's better than nothing if you can't get hired by a big company right after graduation. You can build up your resume and skills there until an established company wants you.

At a startup your boss is usually the CEO of the company, who is always a narcissistic prick who thinks he's the next Bezos or Musk. All it takes to launch a startup is some money. You don't need to have a good product idea or know how to run a business. At a larger company you've got several layers of chill managers separating yourself from the CEO.

Some other places to consider are AMD, Microchip, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Cisco, Microsoft, Sony, Amazon, Apple, MDA, Seimens, Schneider, etc.

Watch out for companies trying to make you a "Contractor". You should be an employee.

>>16714130
Computer Engineering is usually heavy on hardware and light on software, especially since Software Engineering became its own major. Hardware people tend to be grounded in the physical world, not likely to think the software in their brain defines their hardware it runs on.

>>16715662
>Working at a startup is awful
>At a startup your boss is usually the CEO of the company
i'd be a founder and CTO, and get a friend or tap some business grad from my alma mater for CEO
i ain't working for a startup unless it's mine

>At a larger company you've got several layers of chill managers separating yourself from the CEO
lol, management can suck at all scales

>>16715459
Which electives did you take? Which ones do you think should I take?

>>16714080 (OP)
rust is fun, javascript is clean, c is fun, and lua scripts harder than all (although python is merely fine too)

>>16715908
>javascript is clean
javascript's passing resemblance to C is the only thing that makes it remotely tolerable. it was designed in a week and it fucking shows.

a "clean" language is what you make of it. a mathematically clean language would be something like lisp. a clean language for a computer engineer would be something like C.
i've glanced at lua but can't remember shit about it.
python ought not be a person's first language, because you really need an appreciation of data structures to use it correctly.

Switch to information systems if you want to make the same as EE and never have to work

Computer engineering goes well beyond programming and software. Very few people reach the level of expertise to design CPUs, GPUs, and other key components in computers.