What is it like to be a software engineer and what is required from one?

[Polo08816]

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40 hours per week is the minimum for most companies. Government has its own rules and why our government costs so much.

Not too hard to rack up 5 hours on the weekends leaving your computer signed into Outlook Web.

Now, if you get a degree from some top 10 or some other cool place you probably won’t be outsourced, but anything below is canon fodder. Many of my coworkers were outsourced and they had degrees from usually Big 10 engineering schools. Ultimately we’ve had offshore locations for going on 15 years now and it does not work, not the way we thought it would. Some things do work, but things like R&D is much harder to do across the state, let alone the planet.</p>

<p>How to avoid being outsourced? stock up on college degrees (I have 4 ) and experience, and stick around even if you can make more money elsewhere. I’m in a cutthroat field (consumer electronics) but you can’t find my kind of experience, even tho I’m not the brightest programmer in the building by far.

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<p>It’s hard to outsource the defense sector.</p>

<p>I’m certainly not from a top 10 school and in this sector what school you went to does not matter. Even if you’re the brightest guy, you’re useless if you can clear a security clearance background investigation.</p>

<p>Also, with the entire Snowden debacle times might be tough for government contractors depending who is the ACTUAL sponsor for their security clearance. While I work for a defense contractor, my security clearance actually originated from my (current) service in the National Guard. The defense contractor is “borrowing” my clearance. Hence, I am one of those “dual persona” individuals.</p>