02 January 2023

Which stream should I choose, software or hardware engineering?

 Well this is completely in your interest. If you are more fond of soft skills & programming then you can go for the software development side but keep in mind this interview will be tough. The interviewer will try to evaluate your technical skills, logical thinking, communication skills, programming skills etc. Also, companies most of the time define a minimum percentage of marks throughout academic i.e. 10th, 12th and degree. Once you acquire experience of 3+ years, you may find such eligibility criteria will become smoother.


Another choice is software engineering - QA. Here, interview processes are smoother than development. But they expect more about process & spoken power with document skills. Academic criteria may be smoother than development. Here, you need to validate a developed software thoroughly, manual and/or automation process. Your observation power should be good, your thinking abilities should be good. For automation, you may need to learn about a few tools & techniques. However, industries give time to learn those for freshers.

If you are in IT and do not match the above skills set or interest or somehow you are least eligible due to some reason, you no need to worry about. Think about network & hardware engineering, expand your wings beyond limit, e.g. learn Unix, Linux, firewalls, securities, networking mechanism and you can be master in server management, network monitoring etc. This is really a great corner to enjoy with various devices, tools, networking, OS and related in your daily professional life. There are a lot of things to do here and you can feel the power of computer networking, data transmission, security, vulnerabilities, server, protocols, and many things. This branch in industry does not mean only to change/assemble RAM, CPU, or such computer peripherals.

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