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Discussion on: What is exactly working as a software engineer?

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Jon Randy 🎖️ • Edited

This bears no resemblance at all to my experience over 26 years of doing this professionally. I've always found it enjoyable, and never stressful. My advice is:

  • Never estimate
  • Ignore arbitrary deadlines
  • Question everything
  • Try to be as involved as possible with actually designing the stuff you build
  • Avoid mindless donkey work coding tasks whenever you can - they'll grind you down
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Manu Martinez

Yeah, it's only a real point of view. Working for a startup if not the same that working for one of the biggest international software consultant. Focus on not estimating will allow you to lose your time a lot. I'm proud of that 😁.

I really appreciate your comment, everyone has different opinions.