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Architecture Digest
Architecture Digest
Mar 15, 2023 · Fundamentals

What They Didn’t Teach You About Being a Software Engineer

The article shares candid insights about the real‑world life of software engineers, emphasizing that most work involves maintaining large codebases, understanding domain logic, writing good documentation, focusing on business value, handling incompetent colleagues, coping with uncertainty, and assuming everything can fail.

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What They Didn’t Teach You About Being a Software Engineer
Top Architect
Top Architect
Jan 31, 2023 · Fundamentals

Things They Didn’t Teach You About Software Development

Software engineers rarely build entire systems from scratch; instead they spend most of their time navigating large codebases, documenting, estimating, handling uncertainty, and collaborating with imperfect teammates, emphasizing business value over elegant code, and learning practical skills that university curricula often overlook.

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Things They Didn’t Teach You About Software Development