A Software Engineer's Job IS to write software
It’s all over the place:
As a software engineer your job isn’t to write code, but to solve problems.
It’s BS. I don’t disagree with it, you can’t really disagree with something so uselessly broad. This quote is basically true of every role in any organization, especially on the product side. “As a firefighter, your job isn’t to put out fires but to solve problems.” Well, true… but specifically, the very particular problem of a house being on fire.
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