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

<p>We also get to drink lots of coffee, sit in boring meetings, waste hours at a time on conference calls to far away places (affectionately known as ‘low cost sites’, ‘offshore’, and ‘global sites’) talking to people who would absolutely die to take our positions stateside. </p>

<p>Graduate school may pay off depending on what you’re doing.</p>