> What other embedded engineering skills do I need to learn?

IMO embedded engineering is often about measuring and controlling the 
outside world (outside the chip, often outside the electronics). So 
things that are a plus are such things that your company deals with, 
which for instance can be:
- general electronics, HF/wireless, switching, power electronics, sensors
- mathematics, statistics, logic, control theory
- physics, kinematics, robotics
- basic chemistry
- all other kinds of phyiscal/real-world things, from music to economy

When I did job interviews (technical aspects only) I generally tried to 
get the guy (no gals seen) to talk about what he had done. I tried to 
ask not just in which projects he had worked but also what his specific 
contribution was.

When lost for a subject I asked things like
- what achievement are you most proud of?
- what have you learned compared to your first year as a professional?
- we have this-and-this problem, your comments please?
- read this piece of code (2 minutes), then some questions (the code was 
  very short but quite complicated due to callback/reentrancy problems)

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