For the past few years, with so many mergers and acquisitions, layoffs, uncertainty - is it a good idea to start a semiconductor career?
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If money or WLE is important avoid intel at all cost.
As another poster mentioned 3 decades ago was pretty lucrative and all the VPs, Fellows and PE are really enjoying your effort, now get back to working 7x24!
Be a software engineer.
You've missed the hey day by, at least by two or three decades when silicon valley was actually dominated by chip Mfg and their suppliers. No longer the case.
No, semiconducting is the hardest field of engineering. Harder than rocket science and I'm not kidding. If you have to ask whether you should become a semiconducting engineer the answer is no.
it's great, just don't join intel
I would not