If I didn't know anything about software engineering, I'd assume it worked something like what you just described. Compared to what it is in reality, it's a li

If I didn't know anything about software engineering, I'd assume it worked something like what you just described. Compared to what it is in reality, it's a little disappointing, and it's not surprising a lot of people question the title engineer for the majority of developers. I've written semi-critical parts of large businesses and didn't do half of what you described. I know the trade off between getting things done vs. doing it right, and we wouldn't have our current abundance (in tech) if we took the latter, but the security breaches, the lack of care for performance, the errors, crashes and deaths (more to come as we depend on self-driving cars, IoT, etc.) makes it questionable sometimes.