Wtf do you SWEs do?

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kmsdobedo

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kmsdobedo
Apr 11 30 Comments

That’s it. What do most of you do? Idk the field, so can’t really think of what it is you are all doing all the time. And in what languages?

Like SWEs at Google, is it just data engineering and PageRank all day? Like, I just don’t know.

I’m a geospatial data scientist. The fanciest one of the map makers.

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  • New
    Dongerino

    New

    Dongerino
    Rest & vest, browse Reddit and blind all day, leetcode for when they vest and do MVP
    Apr 11 6
  • Okta
    NoAuthN

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    NoAuthN
    SWE is pretty much the kitchen sink of software, the main idea is to build the software, but that's not even half of it, over the past decade or so, other disciples started getting absorbed into SWE such as Testing (due to automation) so basically SWE also test and write test automation, Infrastructure as Code is also another automation that made managing the infrastructure that software runs on top something SWE's do which used to be solely owned by operations teams, more senior SWE's will also do project management.
    Analyzing data whether it is in a form of evaluating experiment results, debugging a production service or finding bottlenecks.
    People don't want to admit it but more often SWEs can find themselves doing some product management and taking product decisions or designing UX just to keep the ball going.
    Apr 11 0
  • Meta / Eng
    Iove

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    Iove
    Browse reddit/blind/hacker news all day, and look for new vacation house/rental property to buy.
    Apr 11 0
  • Meta / Eng
    match-me

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    PRE
    Google
    match-me
    i play league of legends
    Apr 11 3
  • Split
    lTlL v4

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    lTlL v4
    Do you work at ESRI? I used to know some guys in Geospatial that went into risk management for weather. But these guys were meteorologists
    Apr 11 3
    • FICO
      refer:ME

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      refer:ME
      Mind sharing the tech stack you use n do you machine learn?
      Apr 11
    • New / Data
      kmsdobedo

      New Data

      kmsdobedo
      OP
      I do a lot of EDA and preparing data. 90% of the time in Python, 10% in R. Mostly use Pandas/GeoPandas, GDAL, Dask, XGBoost and sklearn. Lots of visualizations with Plotly, Folium, and Holoviews. The stuff is R is just output management and quick checks, so just Dplyr.
      Apr 11