How much is the hardware engineer's value?

I have always wanted to become a qualified Hardware Engineer. However, the current hardware engineers are no longer able to use a multimeter as before. With the development of embedded and integrated circuit ASIC, the industry's requirements for hardware engineers are getting higher and higher.

As more and more new technologies make hardware engineers suffer, 35 is basically hard to find a job, and the wages are still low. It was already brilliant when it rose to around 8000 (not including icdesign and system design ).
According to the truth, in this society, science and technology are developing rapidly, so we need such technicians. Why are the hardware engineers still downgrading?

In the past, companies were willing to find talented and qualified talents for R & D, which was somewhat heroic. A good and competent employee can bring great benefits to the company.

However, everything is one-sidedness.

In this society, the company's population is moving fast. Smart people with strong abilities often bring great harm to the company although they have brought many benefits to the company. There are too many people who have been flying for a few years. It is precisely these restless people who bring new vigor to the whole industry and carry forward the good technology and management in the company. However, their departure has caused a huge gap for the company, and it takes a long time for many places to complete the gap. In short, it hurts a lot.

This situation is much more common, and these large companies are refined. They found that they should not allow companies to rely too much on talents, but to make their talents depend on the company. Therefore, they detail the division of various departments, and each person is responsible for a single task. In this way, the "skill industry has a specialization", the efficiency has been improved, the experience has been accumulated, and the work has been streamlined. Gradually, the company's operations have been streamlined.

As a result, the R & D work of hardware engineers has become monotonous, and there is nothing creative in it,Creativity, reliability, and stabilityIf you have a specialist, you just need to take a small manual and draw a circuit diagram or something according to the rules.

With a simple job, the company will not spend a high salary asking senior experts to develop hardware. Experts have done other things, such as what analysts, architects, and so on.

In general, the larger the company, the smaller the division of labor, the lower the requirements of hardware development engineers. In contrast, small-scale companies have to have more hands, but many "senior" engineers are reluctant to go. So everyone began to complain.

Therefore, hardware R & D engineers must have a clear career direction. Don't think that when you enter a large company, you will have a bright future. Learn to be a person in a large company and learn to do things in a small company. If you want to have technical skills, you can only accumulate your work experience. If you want to make a breakthrough, you need to study in your spare time !!!! Otherwise, the path will be narrower and narrower.

Currently, the most popular field in the electronics industry is the one with the largest number of talents in China. One is embedded system development and the other is icdesign. This is also an opportunity for hardware engineers, it can be switched from traditional digital-to-electrical design to these high-tech technologies. It is not difficult to switch the design of single-chip microcomputer and DSP to the Development of arm. If FPGA is used for design, then it is more familiar with VHDL or OpenGL programming, it's easy to switch to the dedicated Integrated Circuit ASIC.