I graduated in EE and this is no surprise- hardware is hard and Google will throw you $500k a year to tweak the font on their internal compiler. Optics, Power engineering, ASIC design, it’s all fascinating and * really hard * and * really underpaid *.

It’s worrying in the long term, the industry’s been built on underpaid geniuses. We need them, but you can’t begrudge them moving to the money.