Where do you work? And what do you do?

I work for a software house in the South of England. It has about 250 employees and I work as one of them as a programmer, or software developer, or software engineer, whatever you want to call it. I work on software testing tools and also perform training and consultancy, either in-house or on client site. It's pretty interesting stuff and the pay's ney bad either.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Hydra

@ OmagnusPrime (and anyone else here that might know) What's the software engineers role? I'm going for that because I want to do design and planning for scientific apps ideally, starting out as a coder, but a lot of the CS majors on campus are telling me that engineering isn't the way to go for that.

This is somewhat late, but better than never (right?). Sorry, I really should pay better attention, so oops.

So anyways, I don't really like the term Software Engineer as it feels too fluffy for my liking, mostly because it's a generic term that can cover such a huge range of jobs within the computing industry. But people like labels so there you go. If you're looking to get into designing applications then that'll have to be a question you put to any potential employers, make sure the opportunities you are looking for are there. Don't be surprised if you have to start out as a bit of a code monkey, it's quite common in a number of companies. If you have any specific questions feel free to PM me.

There's nowhere I can't reach.