Comments on: What does a software engineer do?

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 12 May 2010 21:20:56 +0000

You got this spot on. I just tell people “I work in IT” that seems to suffice. They have the same disinterested look on thier face, the conversation then eventually meanders to me being asked to solve some strange quirk the person has recently had with Word, Excel, IPod, mobile phone or any other operating system. I guess IT comes with the territory, thats why they pay us the big bucks ………..NOT!

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:17:09 +0000

Yeah, I’ve had a lot of people ask me “So like, what do you actually DO?” upon my telling them that I’m a software programmer. However, the problem for me is usually that their eyes generally glaze over with disinterest pretty much immediately upon asking that question, despite the fact that my answer is usually something like “You know how there programs on your computer? Somebody made those. That’s what I do.”