<p>i just finished my masters degree in ECE from WPI…i did my concentration in DSP…and most of my work was in MATLAB…</p>
<p>i did my undergrad at RPI, finished in 2008…and worked at this power company for about 5 years…3 years into it i started my MS (i wanted to get out of power as it got very boring)…and i worked FT and did grad school part time (but fairly accelerated, going thru summer, doing research, etc)…i got laid off in March (thank god…i hated that job, and took some really advanced classes and needed time to study…i graduated in May with a final GPA of 3.3…all hard work i put in…</p>
<p>anyways, now i find myself applying to jobs like there’s no tomorrow…and i end up getting the rare interview, in the DSP line…and the interview ends up being a 6.5 hour “interview gauntlet” where i get lit up like a joint…hardcore theory questions and whatnot…it’s all well and good, but with interviews coming as rarely as they do, i feel that much more pressure to perform well…the last interview i had was with Bose R&D…it’d have been a very prestigious job, but i don’t think i got it…the interview was ridiculous and i felt like i fought a war by the end of it…</p>
<p>another problem…all my grad work was done in MATLAB…all these jobs ask for real time DSP experience…so i’m finding myself trying to learn it on my own…which is tricky bc it’s not like i have some DSP target boards laying around…</p>
<p>i hate EE, i hate engineering…i wish i’d gone into a more “normal” field where interviews come more often and aren’t this daunting, and don’t ask for so much ridiculous crap as engineering ones do</p>