Post on 21-Dec-2015
Informatics 43 – June 4, 2015
Being a software engineer
• Software engineer• Programmer• Developer• Programming• Network Engineer• Application Engineer• Web Developer
– Front End, Back End
• Database Administrator• Systems Architect
• Product Manager• UX/UI Designer• QA Engineer• Business Analyst• Interaction Designer
As a career
• The good– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt79JcPfZQA Day in the Life: Software
Engineer
• The bad– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=demdap2SzKA iOS Software Engineer,
Brad is Working at Comcast
• The ugly– http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff-at-disney-train-
foreign-replacements.html?_r=0 Pink Slips at Disney
Is it right for you?
• Myers-Briggs personality test– ESTJ: extraversion, sensing, thinking, judgment– INFP: introversion, intuition, feeling, perception– ISTJ: typical programmer?
• Why Don’t More People Work As Programmers? http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2014/10/31/why-dont-more-people-work-as-programmers/
You could do worse
• America’s 10 Least Stressful Jobs http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/05/09/overworked-make-a-leap-to-americas-10-least-stressful-jobs/
• http://imgur.com/a/a1hXG