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It's easy to have someone who is willing to give you the opportunity to practice.

Can embedded work for a lifetime? Can you still get a job after the age of 25?

In recent years, with the continuous growth of the scale of the embedded system industry, as an important emerging industry and economic growth point of the IT industry, the development of the embedded system industry has become a breakthrough in the transformation from manufacturing to creation. What are the job prospects for embedded? Take a look at the analysis below.

Embedded can do a lifetime, I want to say that there is no kind of profession can be engaged in a lifetime, especially in the IT industry, the key depends on the engineer's own career positioning, some people will be on the embedded road has been moving forward, but some people will change careers halfway, just like Lei Jun said, I am a programmer, a software engineer, to this day, I am still a programmer, a software engineer, if you want to move forward on the embedded road, you can refer to the content of the embedded career development plan, 1— 3 years is the engineer level, 3-6 years is the senior engineer level, 6-8 years is the supervisor level, 9-11 years is the manager level, 11-11 + senior managers, directors, business department ......From this point of view, if you want to develop in the industry, there is no problem until the age of 35, so embedded practitioners should give themselves a better position.

What about embedded employment prospects?

Embedded system can be said to be one of the current hot, promising IT application fields, including mobile phones, electronic dictionaries, visual **, digital cameras, digital video cameras, set-top boxes, smart toys, medical instruments and aerospace equipment, etc. are typical embedded systems, embedded talents are extremely scarce, according to authoritative statistics, China's current embedded software talent gap is about 500,000 people every year, the profession has been in short supply, so the employment prospects of embedded development talents are quite good.

1. The advantages of engaging in embedded software development are: (1) At present, there is a scarcity of people in this area at home and abroad. The barrier to entry in this field is high, so it is difficult for non-professional IT personnel to enter this field; On the other hand, it is because this field is relatively new and is currently developing too fast, and most people are unconditionally exposed to it.

2) Unlike application software such as enterprise computing, the work intensity of talents in the embedded field is usually lower (but the income is not low). (3) If you want to start a business one day and engage in your own products, the embedding companion type is not as easy to be pirated as the application software. Hardware design is generally customized by other companies (this is called "OEM":

OEM), which are all general-purpose hardware, we just design the software and become our own product. (4) Where the interest lies, which is the main thing. 2. The disadvantages of engaging in embedded software development are:

1) The starting point is high, and the technology used is often difficult, if the software and hardware foundation is not good, especially the operating system level software foundation is not deep, it may not be suitable for this line. (2) The number of enterprises in this area is much less than that of enterprises. (3) There are a few companies that often ask people with a master's degree or above to engage in embedded, mainly based on the difficulty of embedded.

However, most companies do not require this, as long as you have experience. (4) The platform relies strongly, and it is more difficult to change the platform.

I've been doing embedded for almost 10 years, and I'm here to help you.

Embedding is definitely not a low-barrier thing. There is no industry with a low threshold and good employment and high salary. If there is, it's definitely temporary.

What China does not lack is smart people, and if there was such an industry, I think it would have been squeezed out of the door long ago. It's not the turn of those of us who are late to realization. And embedded is definitely a relatively speaking, relatively high threshold of the coarse joke industry.

Because embedded has to learn more things than rock search, if you want to be embedded, you must be proficient in a programming language, such as C, you must understand the operating system such as linux, you must also understand the processor such as arm, and if you do pure software development, then you may only need to understand a programming language. The reason why the salary of embedded is relatively high is mainly because it has more things to learn, and now it is in demand. But if you want to be proficient, it's impossible without three or five years.

Embedded software development needs to learn a lot of things, because it is still different from ordinary upper-level software development, mainly in embedded software refers to a specific need or application and customized hard bench fingers and software platform, as well as the software running on the platform. Therefore, learning embedded software development requires not only understanding software development, but also some knowledge of mainstream embedded operating systems, hardware architecture, and hardware resource management.

The main courses required are as follows:

Programming courses (mainly based on C language, relying on low-level development also need to know assembly language).

Software engineering courses, including software development process, project management, software development methods, etc.

Knowledge of databases (may or may not be learned).

Programming algorithms. (There is a need for a book on data structure, Yan Weimin's data knot jujube configuration is very good, but it is a little difficult, and Tang Fagen's is also good).

The knowledge of the operating system, embedded is generally based on Linux, or it may be based on UC OS, to learn the embedded system well, in addition to a solid programming foundation, the accumulation of this part of the knowledge is particularly important. In this regard, we recommend you a copy of "Embedded Real-Time Operating System UC OS-II", which is an entry-level operating system in the embedded industry, which is written in a relatively simple way and helps to understand the principles of the operating system.

Embedded-related courses, because embedded development is different from the upper-level development on a general PC.

Knowledge of simple hardware and architecture, such as ARM, PowerPC, MIPS, etc. There are many books on this subject, Beihang Publishing House, you can search for them on the Internet.