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What does a software engineer does?
A Software Engineer does many things (I know as I was one for 14 years and before that worked with them as a Hardware Technician for 16 years). The main thing that a Software Engineer does is writing documentation for other Engineers and for delivery to the Customer, to describe the software design and explain how the software is installed and used, etc. Roughly at least 2/3s of a Software Engineer's time is spent on that, so writing skills are a very high priority.Other things a Software Engineer does are:present his designs in customer reviews, so public speaking skills are also a high priorityattend peer reviews, both to present/defend his designs and to critique other's designsrequirements allocation, derivation, and tracingprototyping code to verify possible design options and their practicalitywriting test cases and test procedurespreliminary designdetailed designwriting codetesting code against the test casesfixing code that failed the test cases and updating all documents as needed to matchkeep up with Customer requested requirements changes and updating all documents, test cases, designs, and code as neededintegrating his code into the systemrepeat anything and everything already completed as neededcollaborate with Systems Engineerscollaborate with Hardware Engineerssupport Marketing when neededsupport Manufacturing when neededsupport Test Floor when neededget 80 to 100 hours of work done in a week for 40 hours of salary (in many cases)somehow find a few minutes here and there to eat and sleepforget having much of any life outside work, except when you can take a week or two of vacationetc.Actually I generally enjoyed doing it. For me it was practically the kind of job that I would be willing to pay to do, but they payed me to do it instead.
What Does a software engineer do?
A software engineer is a person who builds or designs software. A software engineer must, of course, be a good programmer, be well versed in data structures and algorithms, and be fluent in one or more programming languages.
