Can't comment on most of what you asked, but I'm graduating with an EE degree soon. Job search was more difficult than I expected (I have 2 internships and a 3.9 gpa from a top 10 state school). I applied to EE, CompE, and CS related roles over the course of ~5 months, got 5 interviews, 2 offers and a return offer from a company I interned at. 1 offer was cybersec/vulnerability analyst, the other 2 were FPGA related. I took the cybersec offer because it paid the best and seemed the most interesting.
