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I recently got off the web dev hamster wheel and applied for a position doing embedded development in C in an established company after 25 or so years of startup and consultant madness.

I look forward to writing code and solving interesting long term problems again.

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This! I am beginning to think more every day that C/C++ is about the only stable, rewarding and fun career in tech devoid of petty politics, full of high quality colleagues and tons of fun problems to solve. Ideally want to be an entrepreneur but C/C++ dev is not a bad fallback option.

Congratulations.

Did you learned C for the new role or had experience working in embedded ?

Did you had to grind leet code for interviews ?

No experience with embedded since Uni, but plenty of lower level C/++ for side projects with code on Github.

These interviews were thankfully of the more constructive kind, I didn't do a single test.

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