>software engineering jobs are literally jam-packed with chads, women and niggers >the days of the hungry skeletor is over >there's a huge brain creep so to even have a swing at a basic entry level job you need to fluently know 15 different languages and stacks >need to also be a pseudomathematician >have to constantly measure your cock against your co-workers to maintain your job >have to play office politics constantly >work ridiculous hours Japan style cause your boss does too >all of this shit for only 70k a year
I should have avoided crippling debt and just went to fucking trade school. At least I wouldn't be vitamin D deficient. Software jobs are fucking dookie.
Move to the flyover states, that hasn't gotten out here yet.
Ayden Sanchez
I just want to come into work, put on some headphones, open some tickets and clack a keyboard for 8 hours. Why the fuck is THAT of all things missing from most software gigs?
Michael Hernandez
I'm holding on with my 150k salary at one of the companies known for hiring pajeets. They still need competent programmers to actually lead projects. The intelligence and skill level of the average programmer has gone way down. It's hell trying to mentor some of these people, impossible to get through to them.
I'm always confused about what you guys mean when you write "software engineering" or "software engineer" then talk about knowing stacks like you're a webdev.
Nathan Perry
>le web dev isn't software maymay Crusty undergraduate who thinks he's way smarter than he actually is detected.
Lincoln Murphy
Bro I don't want to hear it. I'm 29 and married, I make 34k working as a service tech in the deep south. Pay fucking blows dick. I know I'm not a programmer and I didn't graduate college but goddamn, everybody I support makes more than me. Fucking depressing. At least I somehow married someone who makes good money. FUCK.
>work ridiculous hours Japan style I worked for a company in Michigan. The director would walk around talking about kaizen and how the Japanese do things. Fuck you, BEPCO
Christopher Gonzalez
it's software but it's not engineering
Asher Scott
>Typing coded makes me an engineer
Pick up the mop and become a sanitation engineer instead
Michael Hernandez
>Thinking comp Sci is something other than pseudomath anyways
Ayden Williams
Kek in what way is it not engineering
Thomas Wood
engineering makes you an engineer
Jack Wright
engineering is about applying universal scientific and mathematical principles to creatively solve a problem, people working with big software stacks aren't usually doing this they're just plugging things into other things
Logan James
What you are describing is creative problem solving, with science and math.
Engineering is building things and making trade offs.
Henry Wilson
>People doing exactly what I said aren't engineers
Made me think.
Colton Sullivan
frameworks abstract away the math and science (engineering). That's the point
Benjamin Gomez
>He hasn't seen the huge influx of people that do 2-3 months in a coding bootcamp that get hired as "Software Engineers"
Jordan Thompson
im not ready to become a software engineer. how do i just become like a software technician?
Bentley Gomez
how many hours prr day to actually get hired after 3 months?
Elijah Williams
Summer Internship
Adrian Campbell
Most people I check have cookie cutter portfolios that consist of 3 or 5 websites. I'll make an example of one right now.(Its worth noting that she started around last year april so about 6 months spent learning.)
Luis Flores
Creating e.g. react or angular, an example of a large software stack that you refer to, probably required very little math or science. Maybe CS, but no new data structures or algorithms were created for either of these efforts.
Would you argue that these two examples are not feats of software engineering?
The react and es6 dichotomy annoys me. It’s kind of implied that react uses something resembling ECMAScript
Caleb Richardson
I don't know what those frameworks are but any large piece of software probably involves data structures and algorithms, they don't need to be "new", if you are solving problems by writing algorithms then you're engineering Frameworks hide the algorithms from you and you solve problems in a context-specific fashion by finding out what library functions you need to call to get your desired result
Ryder Martin
well if i work a full time job and aint exactly full of energy, im guessing 3 months is too optimistic?
Christian Price
>reasons you went into software and computers was to be that goblin at the back >landscape changing to competent but also customer-facing and also presentable employees
>go into trade >actual chads with a future in their fathers or fathers friends business
From your earlier posts you seemed to imply that if you weren’t doing something novel or creative with math or science then you weren’t engineering, or did I misread?
I’m surprised you haven’t heard of either of those two frameworks. Have you heard of spring?
I would also argue that the act of writing maintainable and readable code is an act of engineering
Xavier Ramirez
its genocide dude.
Ethan Phillips
>70k a year. Isn't that a jr. Dev salsry?
Easton Stewart
Not for most of the country
Henry Carter
I said you solve problems by using math and science. That doesn't necessarily mean inventing a new type of algorithm or data structure. Algorithms and data structures are not discrete concepts, the devil is the details. Like a table in Lua is actually a specific type of hash table combined with a specific type of sparse array that only activate under certain conditions, that's an engineered solution using concepts that already exist. I'm sure React and Angular are full of their own algorithms and data structures.
>I’m surprised you haven’t heard of either of those two frameworks. Have you heard of spring? I'm not a web dev
>I would also argue that the act of writing maintainable and readable code is an act of engineering Kind of but not really because engineering is more about what is being done not so much how its laid out, that's architecture
Hunter Martin
>>I’m surprised you haven’t heard of either of those two frameworks. Have you heard of spring? >I'm not a web dev
Angular and react are two of the biggest single-page app frameworks out right now. Surprising that you haven’t heard of them even in passing.
Spring is the largest application framework ever, for java. It’s almost entirely used for backend applications, with the exception of spring mvc which sucks.
I don’t think what you’re describing (solely relying on a framework, searching for library calls without layering your own abstractions and algorithms) ever happens in practice.
Re: architecture vs engineering, I think we’re sort of sailing past each other like two ships in the night, so I’ll agree to disagree
>I don’t think what you’re describing (solely relying on a framework, searching for library calls without layering your own abstractions and algorithms) ever happens in practice its a degree of graduation obviously the more of that you're doing the less engineering you're doing and don't pretend you can't build websites and apps by slapping together frameworks
architecture and engineeering are so related in software they might awell be the same thing, architecture is about human concerns and engineering is about computation concerns, as far as I'm concerned
Are the civil engineers building a bridge doing engineering or are they glueing a bunch of shit together?
Julian Jenkins
unless you're copy pasting bridge schematics then it's engineering obviously
Ryan Evans
im not OK only with the forced sjw politics down my throat, other than that, if you are not in Palo Alto its fine. Especially if you are beyond entry level.
Joseph Cook
He said he is not a web dev, why would he know about a single framework used for in small part of IT. Like I know you don't know how to use a genetic algorithm to teach an A.I. to use a Ik system procedural create a walking Robot and optimization it with a Bayesian belief network because you don't do A.I., Robotics, or computer sci/ engineering. You another one for those Boot camp code monkeys that are attending the hackathon down the hall of my office. While I am making 250k a year writing the Assembly on the next Qualcomm chipset.
Alexander Williams
larp
Benjamin Evans
t.Pajeet code monkey
Noah Parker
t. larper
Brody Sanchez
t. Neet Neckbeards
Matthew Brooks
I know what those things are at a high level, and I’m sure I could learn them. I was arguing whether or not using a framework, web or otherwise, constituted engineering, which I think it does. Even though the framework abstracts away a lot of concerns and allows you to not re-invent the wheel, you still have to fit all the pieces together, evaluate the trade offs, make the code extensible and maintainable, write tests, put it in a deployment pipeline etc etc. that sounds like engineering effort to me.
I have a CS degree and write software professionally, and have worked at every layer of the stack. No embedded development though, so you got me there.
Congrats on the salary my guy, I’m happy for you. Assembly isn’t really my thing but I’m glad you have found your calling
Nolan Price
I'm in my last year of uni and looking for an internship makes me despair. Can't even get a dumbass unpaid internship. Have to google PHP functions daily. Won't be able to work in a warehouse either cause where I live employers have to pay you a bonus if you have higher education so I'll never get hired for that. I guess I can always jump off a cliff (in Minecraft of course)
James Hill
larper
Josiah Sanders
It can be engineering, it depends what you're doing with it testing and deployment isn't engineering though so I don't know why you're dead set on labelling it something it isn't
Alexander Cox
I’m not really deadset, I was just adding it to a list of things that go on during the course of engineering a solution to a business need
Nicholas Thompson
you can engineer with frameworks, but most web devs aren't engineers, if you're the interviewee who thinks fizzbuzz has too much math, you aren't an engineer
Jayden Ross
No web developer is going to think fizzbuzz has too much math. I think you are confusing web developers and applications for a web development job.
Blake Phillips
Oddly enough, I have a software engineering internship currently, that let me stay part time while i’m in school.
Manager calls me tonight, 60 year old guy, really nice and polite with me, puts me on the phone with a woman he’s with in person and she tries inviting me to one of those MLM group sessions
I feel like a professional barrier was crossed, especially manager to intern. What a sick situation to put an intern in.
Ryder Powell
Kaizen is German isn't it? Also anyone that talks about Kaizen is a useless bureaucrap
Levi Johnson
It sounds like we’ve come full circle haha. You can engineer with frameworks. You were just pointing out that people who are more on the design side of the house, who do UX and things under that umbrella, aren’t engineers?
I can buy that
Joseph Davis
Assembly isn't that bad once you realize you can use NASM, MASM, & LUA scripting for reuseable code base and not reinvent the wheel for every damn Chipset. The secret to getting a good job in tech is doing things no one else can, why be a Full stack dev and have your whole career based on the wimps of AWS Dev OPs (My first job out of college that place is hell!) when you can do something like Assembly or Fortran for R&D, or specialized systems like power plants and make like 150 to 250k as a senior dev because no else can use your tool set. Also I have worked with Full stack dev you can plug in play module your way to a spaghetti coded mess real easy, ask any of these so called tech start ups.
Dominic Peterson
Stop larping. No one believes the bullshit you pull from your ass.
Eli Thomas
"Kaizen" is some bullshit banzai japan way of improvement, that really leads to "Karōshi" working yourself to death!
Benjamin Nguyen
>No web developer is going to think fizzbuzz has too much math. somebody post the image
Logan Thompson
Why are you so mad nigger>>>
Nolan Martinez
Fuck off retard, every competent software developer in SV makes 250k these days. You aren't cool because you write some ARM machine code for your shitty QA position, you're still a code monkey
Anthony Mitchell
Then why are you making it?
Elijah Morales
desu most everyone cleans up pretty nice. just do some basic hygine and very basic fashion consciousness and you'll look way better while still being a goblin inside