Hi,
Today was my first live encounter with my new colleagues, embedded developers. Although I don't consider myself quite in this category yet, given my long "macro" background. (Or what's the best way to call all things non-micro?)
I was surprised to find I am the only woman in the room (in the macro world, it used to be that way in the beginning of my career). I was even more surprised to find myself almost the youngest one (in macro, I am one of the veterans).
Is this representative or a coincidence? I remember reading somewhere that the average age of embedded developers is somewhere in the 40s, but today it was way higher, and we were there to learn about brand new products.
I am curious: why don't many young people go into the embedded world, assuming my very anecdotal evidence has any validity at all? Is the market shrinking? Does not look that way.. Is entering the micro market a good career choice today?