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

<p>I have worked as a software engineer role in an O&G company (I am EE) and here is my experience:</p>

<p>-you either sit at your desk full of laptops and monitors or you are at a meeting room.

  • The wage is pretty good and benefits are excellent
  • boring (mostly similar thing with little discrepancy between designs)
  • in my situation, I didn’t think there is much personal growth as you will only be getting more and more experience on the company-customized libraries, so the experience may not be compatible when moving on to another company.
  • I cant say anything about the stability of the job as I have only worked there for less than a year before I moved to another job (non software related)</p>