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