[raziel2701]

Amen brother! And the work-life conditions are also much better in software. I remember in grad school an executive from a big semiconductor company (I think it was ON semi) was complaining to the EE department that most students are now pursuing EE as a CS degree and very few went into hardware so they claimed the talent pool was small.

How about paying more then?

Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome.

When I interviewed at intel the position they were offering was to be the "owner" of a tool and I'd be on call.... Yeah no thanks, I get a PhD just to be owned by some company?

[sitzkrieg]

you think on call doesn't exist in software? its a common squeeze and replace w h1b tool

[BeetleB]

Worked as a SW engineer for over a decade. Never did on-call.

Not all SW jobs are web related.