What do I do as a Software Engineer?

In today’s video I dive in to the specifics of what I do ay my job by talking about my role and responsibilities as a Software Engineer. Its also important to note that every Software Engineering job is different depending on the role, the company, and the person in that role. Let us know in the comments what your day and responsibilities a a software engineer are!

Hope you have a great day, wherever you are!
x, mayuko

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Mayuko Inoue is a content creator and Software Engineer. After working in Silicon Valley tech companies like Intuit, Patreon, and Netflix for six years as an iOS Engineer, she became a full-time creator in 2020. Her work aims to help people find their way through the tech industry by sharing her own experiences navigating this world through technology, career advice, and lifestyle videos. She is passionate about discussions around mental health, cultural identity, and creating technology with empathy and compassion.

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[Jigglypoof]

80% reading email.
19% meetings where we discuss things that could have been decided over email.
1% writing code (ie copying from StackOverflow)

[hynesclan]

"What do you do as a software engineer?"
"I engineer software."

[MuzicManz]

Normal day of work for me as a Software Engineer:
-Meetings to discuss what I've done, what I'm doing, what I plan to do: 20%
-Planning what I'm going to code/Research: 10%
Coding : 50% ( with half of the time developping and the other half performing Software Tests/Bug Fixes on all the code I write)
Other:10%
Thanks for sharing this video. It's cool to see the differences between work styles among Software Engineering disciplines

[JamesBond-mqpd]

30% programming
40% trying to understand something (frameworks, libraries etc)
30% communication

[FixItAngel]

good to know. thank you for a thorough understanding. have a nice day.

[Chloe-zjbl]

I'm a software engineering student and I'm EXTREMELY overwhelmed by the workload at the moment, but your videos give me the motivation to keep going! Thank you so much <3

[ottersaurus]

Can you make a video on how you learned to code. So I mean how you studied and what you think is the best way to learn.

[joec]

I just discovered (and subscribed to) your channel. Whoda thunk someone would create a YouTube channel about being a software engineer? Thank you!!
I've been writing software professionally for 45 years. When I graduated from college in 1970, there were no degrees or many courses in what we now call "computer science". It was mostly about the hardware and the EEs back then. My degree is in Chemical Engineering. In my junior year, I took a course in FORTRAN programming, and I was hooked. i've been doing it ever since, although now I'm semi-retired and spend more time playing golf than coding, I take small jobs mostly to keep my brain running well.
My last full-time position was as the CTO of a medical imaging software company. What I really did in that job was lead the advanced development work, and did a lot of coding in that capacity.
Wow, how much I would love to sit with you and your co-workers over a few beers and find out what's the same and different about being a developer now vs when I left my full-time job back 2005.
One thing you might want to talk about in a video is how much of programming isn't actually coding, but rather researching, scouring documentation, experimenting, and learning about a library or web API you have to use. And also how much time is spent on rooting out things that AREN'T in the documentation, but on places like StackOverflow.
Thanks again. It's nice to see more women going into software!

[stewiegriffin]

product manager is the guy who thinks nine women can deliver a baby in one month

[dontaskhazel]

This sounds like an amazing job! I love the collaboration between product manager - designer - engineer, and also how together you are able to help with so many different apps that accomplish different things and are able to help people. Watching your videos has opened my eyes to CS and software engineering, things I've never thought about!

[falcom]

I've studied computer software engineering for 3 years now and last summer I was scared. I wasn't sure I still had it in me to pursue this career. Then on my quest to re explore my major I found your channel. Your channel reminded me of why I went into this major in the first place. It's easy to lose sight of the greater goal and I'll definitely try harder now. There's not much I can do to thank you, but I subscribed haha.. yeah 😂

[praveshgaire]

Software engineers I see on vlogs spend 50% time on food

[RosaMaria-uief]

I’m only 16 and I was think of being a software engineer BUT I’m confused

[sadrashadmand]

I'm in IRAN and seeing u guys are doing the same things as we do in our company gives me goosebumps! Wish u the best, keep up the good job!

[ekuersch]

From someone doing similar work, I give props to you! You explained your role and what goes into the creation of a product clearly and impressively boiled things down to their core concepts.

[gaurichess]

I have to be honest, I had to rewind the video a few times because I was mesmerized by how charming you are!

[jenniferhawkins]

Thank you for making this video!! I'm a woman researching the field and since my husband is a network engineer, I always felt this field had a stigma with it like it's just a "man's field". It's encouraging and really neat to see women in the field! It helps me really step into looking deeper at it with more confidence!

[ness]

Thank you for creating this, it's given me some much needed insight! I rarely see other videos talk about what the actual day to day workload consists of for software engineers.

[shiloh]

Thank you very much! Programming has been a passion for mine for about a year now and your videos have only solidified my ideas for my future career! (I'm 15 btw)

[yasaamoin]

Keep putting out content like these.The day your video comes out, I waste no time in watching it, for its a quick inspiration for me and provides an understanding of the professional life of this field