To many jobsdescriptions are over complicated just to sound fancy. Let's have a little fun here. Explain in the shortest and simplest way possible what 90% of your day to day job is. I'll start:
Directing people to read the documentation.
David J Eddy @david_j_eddy
About: AWS Certified (x4), Automated Testing / Continuous Integration / Delivery / Deployment (CI/CDs), Cloud, Containers, Dev(Sec)Ops, Software Engineer.
Location:
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Joined:
Sep 8, 2017
90% of my job is...
Publish Date: Dec 7 '18
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Jack Harner 🚀Dec 7, 201890% of my job is figuring out how to market a Zappos-sized catalogue with the budget of a Mom and Pop shoe store.
OndrejDec 7, 2018Honestly 90 % of my job is refactoring legacy code to the point in which it is usable & wondering if my client will pay me for it.
buphminDec 8, 2018Looking at the requirements of a project, then looking at the code, then... (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
In all seriousness though its taking requirements and implementing them. Sometimes its in very old bad code, some ok code, and sometimes some really good code. The hard part is understanding the big picture when there are thousands of tables, separate systems that need to talk to each other and with almost none of it documented.
Michael "notriddle" HowellDec 8, 2018Rationalizing the regulatory and process requirements into PHP and SQL.
Alexandru BucurDec 8, 2018Making things work, be it code, managing people, new hires, hardware issues and so on. There's no dull day from that point of view, there's always a 'fire' to extinguish somewhere.
AveryDec 8, 2018Communicating: teaching, learning, planning, aligning, reporting etc. 80% out loud, 20% written. Notably, not a ton of documentation.
Even when I'm hands on keyboard writing code it's still paired programming.
Elliot DerhayDec 8, 2018I get called about the copier pretty frequently too, though mostly by the same person -- and usually when convenience is low.
- Vincent Milum JrDec 9, 2018
One of my favorites is those that try to fax. They type in the phone number, put in the paper... But then never hit "start fax", and get confused when it doesn't work.
- Elliot DerhayDec 9, 2018
I can't say I've seen that where I work. So far, everyone I've worked with here at least knows there's an extra step to send.
Peter EllisDec 8, 2018Knowing and telling everyone what everyone else is doing.
Okay, I do a lot of translating between coder-speak and human too, and help everyone with everything, both coding-related and other stuff. Keeps everyone happy if they only have to concentrate on their own job. And happy means efficient.
Gabriel Magalhães dos SantosDec 8, 2018In job test: make a funcionar to calculate Fibonacci and draw the LINE with canvas/react/graphql/gulp
In job day: padding-top: 30px;
- Gregor GonzalezDec 9, 2018
I really feel uncomfortable when I'm not coding and people doesn't help. 70% of my job is to assist unproductive meetings.
the rest: "hi, can you configure email account on my cell phone?"
Plamena RadnevaDec 9, 2018Figuring out actual acceptance criteria (since requirements are often too vague) by asking TPMs, architects, discussing AC of dependant teams, etc.
Robin KretzschmarDec 10, 2018... thinking about whether you really need to implement it and if so, whether there is a better solution.
Daniel UhlmannDec 10, 2018Review server-sided architecture - cry a bit about non-automated things - automate it - straightening it on each node - smile.
Jean-Michel 🕵🏻♂️ FayardDec 11, 2018Android development: write Kotlin code that fetches data from internet, display it in a list, and open a detailed view when you click on an item.
Keith LeeDec 14, 2018Busywork while
$ dd if=linux-yocto-arm-console.img of=/dev/sdc bs=4Mdoes its thing....
Helen AndersonJan 2, 2019Asking "but what are you trying to achieve?"
Most of the requests that come my way say "I need this dataset, please provide it".
90% of the time there is a better dataset the analyst isn't aware of or some aggregating that I can do upstream that will get rid of a lot of the heavy lifting the analyst has signed themselves up for.
It's a nice feeling to be able to add value and not just be a 'data donkey', but I find myself asking "but what are you trying to achieve?" over and over and over.
Fiddling...
I’m always fiddling with something. Code, design, copy, whatever. I’m a fiddler.