Most software developer jobs are not really programming jobs. By that I mean the amount of code written is fairly insignificant to the amount of "other" work wh

Most software developer jobs are not really programming jobs. By that I mean the amount of code written is fairly insignificant to the amount of "other" work which is mainly integration/assembly/glue work, or testing/verification work. There definitely are some jobs and some occasions where writing code is the dominant task, but in general the trend I've seen over the past 20 years I've been working has been more and more to "make these two things fit together properly" and "why aren't these two things fitting together properly?" So in part I think we do a disservice to people entering this industry when we emphasize the "coding" or "programming" aspects in education and training. Programming language skills are great, but very important is systems design and integration skills.