On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Gabriel Gunderson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Time alone doesn't mean anything to me. It totally depends on the > person and what they've done with that time.
Agreed. Also, it shouldn't have to be *paid* to qualify as experience. I've no doubt there are hobbyists that have far more experience with embedded devices than some that are paid to do it. Furthermore, "embedded" is very ambiguous--I venture to say almost as much as "cloud". Is it using PIC micro controllers? 8-bit Intel 8051 chips? 16-bit controllers? Full-on 32-bit Arm cpus? Or even full-on 32-bit x86 cpus? Or a system that runs a linux kernel. All can be considered as an "embedded" environment but have vastly different OS/software ecosystems. Some will be coding in a mix of assembly and C, with possibly painful, proprietary development tools, while others may have the luxury of a bash shell and standard unix tools and a broad choice of languages for the custom bits. As for salary, IMO it simply wastes everyone's time if a job posting doesn't at least provide a salary range. That way someone that needs to earn more won't bother to apply. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
