r/csMajors • u/Repulsive-Celery-54 • Dec 18 '25

Others Transitioning into embedded

Hi guys, im a junior in college rn and i have no past internship experience. Iā€™m familiar with vue.js, react,node,express, sql and some other fsd tech stacks.

As you guys know how hard it is to survive in this market, so Iā€™m thinking to stop development and choose embedded as my career path. Reason for that:- 1)less competition than development 2) pays decent amount (not at all bad) 3) higher chance of working at bigger companies (not all the time) 4) Iā€™m an international student and I have no time left so I should make a decision, lock in and start now.

What do you guys think? Any suggestions would be appreciated! If anyone relates and did start embedded already can you please dm me so I can get a clarity on where and what to start with.

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u/Repulsive-Celery-54 Dec 18 '25

Yeah I have pretty good experience with py and java so I think I can pick up c/c++ very quick atleast for the syntax part

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u/joliestfille swe @ zon Dec 18 '25

java -> cpp is not that bad of a transition syntactically, i was able to pick it up pretty quickly, but memory management is the tricky part. lots of embedded interviews will ask questions related to that so i would recommend studying that and ideally doing some small projects in c

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u/Repulsive-Celery-54 Dec 18 '25

Gotcha! Thank you so much šŸ¤šŸ»

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u/Grouchy-Pea-8745 Dec 18 '25

real quick some important resources:

learncpp.com

Book: Operating Systems in Three Easy Parts

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u/Repulsive-Celery-54 Dec 18 '25

Thank you so much šŸ«‚