I'm more interested in knowing the status of the kernel team. Is there any chance that there is an outflow of talents so they are OK to hire people who are not exactly qualified 100% for professional kernel development? So that I might get a chance to snug in...:P
My professional goal is to get into a paying low level system programming job with a salary of 90K+ CAD. My current job is too high level to make a one shot transition so I'm considering making multiple hops. I did work on some low level system programming projects but I feel I could never compete with college graduates who have a ton of time to grind on the Linux source code. I have 2 hours at best every day. Maybe it is an unrealistic objective but I'm willing to give it a go.
Sounds like you’d be better off applying to real companies. You sound very smart, or at least capable of people skills and learning. Don’t waste yourself at Microsoft
If youre able to do some networking and tell people verbatim what you just wrote. I think that will help a lot more than grinding kernel logic or whatever.
If youre not considering it, I would reccomend trying to find a local hacker club like defcon or 2600. There are usually a few embedded folks who go or are affiliated with those.
