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Disclaimer: This post is more about my personal rant on the ECE branch as a whole. Feel free to criticize me.

I understand the AI fearmongering in the IT sector, but ECE sector itself isn't doing any good, maybe in 10-20 years things might change, but right now, I don't see a sudden boom in this sector, especially in India itself.

At first, when I gave JEE back in 2023, everyone was like interested in CSE, and now all of a sudden almost a lot of posts coming up saying "Oh, I am interested in ECE"

I understand that AI is getting real good at programming things with right set of prompts, and with someone who has the right technical knowledge can use to improvise the overall productivity, hence the layoffs, but getting into circuital branch just for this reason, doesn't make sense, because from what I see, the Entry level jobs are almost non-existent in this sector. All these buzzwords of "Semiconductor Boom coming" and all, I barely see the effect of it.

Let me make you understand, the overall coursework of ECE and EE branch is very hard, requiring strong fundamentals in differential calculus, vectors and complex numbers along with grasp of EMFT, and basics of ECE. I am not scaring you or something, but it just was tough getting grades, because from what I have seen, the ECE/EE departments have the most sadistic fuck ass professors, who don't know shit they are teaching.

And not a lot of resources are available online for such courses. The only good source are books.

Other than that, not many ECE companies hire Btech students, most of them prefer Masters. In my college itself, the number of companies that offered for IT Roles exceeds way way more than the number of Core companies that came on-campus.

As an ECE major, it feels suffocating, because I am basically left with zero options, other than either pursue the race of getting into IT sector, or opt for master's through Gate in a better university where the Core companies hire from. Other sectors do also exist like Consultancy, Data Analyst etc etc.

Either way, still a long way to go, as I feel exhausted due to the burnout of 3 years of engineering. As someone who has done internship in DRDO along with a CG around 9, I still couldn't make it for core company, only 1 intern was hired in 3rd year itself out of 240 students. Basically, what was the point of doing BTech in ECE if this doesn't offer decent number of jobs without pursuing Masters.

TLDR: If you want to get into ECE sector, get ready to grind your CGPA along with ready to do master's if you want a job that pays well (or even better than some SDE roles)