Every Software Engineer Role Explained!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ค. 2024
- There are so many roles in tech, everything from software engineer to data scientist to product manager to product designer. It's hard to know how technical each role is and what's expected of you. Further, it's hard to understand how each role collaborates and what tools they use. Today, I walk you through all the roles in tech, from most technical to least technical. I hope this video shows you there's a role for you, depending on your interests and skills!
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:40 - Role 1: Engineers
0:51 - Infrastructure Engineers
2:09 - Software Engineers
3:16 - Data Engineers
4:39 - Testing/QA Engineers
5:30 - TestPro Shoutout (ad)
6:09 - Sales Engineers
7:21 - Role 2: Scientists
7:39 - Data Scientists
8:18 - Researchers
9:18 - Role 3: Analysts
10:16 - Role 4: Product Managers
11:47 - Role 5: Product Designers
12:06 - User Interface Designers
12:31 - User Experience Designers
12:58 - Outro
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Clear and detailed explanation. Your channel is becoming a reference point for many developers, and in the sector in general. Good job 😊
I actually understood my role in my company after watching your video. Thank you
happy to hear it!
Your videos are done so well! Concise and to the point. I’ve been binging your videos to help me understand if I should major in Computer Science with 0 experience. Thank you!
you really do give more information in 15mins than some do in 30. When it comes to the software industry, you're the most informative and clear in my opinion.
love this comment, thanks for the kind words
Besides amazing video. I'm starting off with my coding journey and hoping to make it to big tech one day. Your videos have helped me gain in on perspective. Thank you!
To the point and clear explanation with video chapters (easy to navigate), you nailed it.
thanks for watching!
Subscribed. I've been watching the last few of your videos and each one is just pure quality. Wishing you success brother. You're gonna be a big tech channel in the near future.
thanks for the support, means a lot
This is the best tech channel that I've found, can't believe how small you're.
this comment made my day, thanks for being here!
I like your content! As a software engineer myself, I was quite amazed by your studies etc. Your charisma and humor are great too! As is your beard. I could start making technical vids, just being charismatic and deep diving, is holding me back.
thanks for the kind words, you should just do it! i was not great when i first started either
Namanh would explain everything and you would understand him 100% always love his vid
thanks for being an early supporter of my channel
you r doing great work kapur i need some more video on that
This is a great video to help people understand their options for working in tech. Thanks for making it!
thanks for watching!
Super informative video once again as usual! Keep up the 🔥 content bro! Can't wait for vlogs!
thanks for being an og supporter
Absolutely Awesome! Many thanks & keep up the great work!!!
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This is so helpful, Thank you!!
Wow it’s lit 🔥 The information in this video is so condensed ❤️ Keep going dude 🚀
plan on it, thanks for watching!
Love your vids and genuineness! Commenting for the algorithm!
thanks for commenting!
Your videos are really motivational for my tech career and it helps me to push even further ❤️🏃♂️📈💻
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Awesome video Namanh! Could you also make some more personal finance videos, you're really good at breaking down complex topics and making them easy to understand. Keep it up :)
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The kind of content I pay my internet bill for. Keep it up! 👍
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Awesome Explanation , Namanh ❤️
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Solid content, really well informed!
😊
Thanks this helped trigger me to anchor and focus on what I should be focusing on.
glad to hear it!
I’d love a video where you dive deeper into software engineering roles. Explain briefly what sort of front end roles exist, what sort of back end roles exist, etc..
thanks for the suggestion, noted for a future video!
Exactly what I request him to do
Definitely Subscribing! Well done brother!
appreciate the support, stick around - big things to come
As an Infra Engineer, this spoke to me deeply.
much respect
Really you give me clarity...thanks:)👍
glad to hear it
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appreciate it!
Sharing my two cents being a software test engineer; the best SDETs (Software Developer Engineer in Test) are ones who are as technical as a regular Software Engineer, because having a deeper technical background helps with integration and functional testing.
In most roles, you want to be a good software engineer first before you specialize. Though, despite being an SDET, I have to work with Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and tons of other deployment tools. So DevOps, Infrastructure, Testing... Ya do what ya gatta do depending on the company haha!
thanks for sharing your perspective and damn you know it all!
and in a startup, everyone is everything on your list
indeed
Well explained and excellent content. love it mann.
appreciate the support
@@namanhkapur Welcome bro......
Cool video!.. Thank you!
thanks for watching!
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Where would you say someone looking to get into front end web development would fall? The UI/UX designer?
Very detailed video 🙏
😊
great content as always
thanks for being here!
i'm super exicted become software engineer when you finish explain role software engineer in this video
wishing you the best of luck!
Would getting a CS + Business dual degree be optimal for product?
You forgot about security dudes. Very cool video! :)
ah yes! knew i’d probably forget a few, i’d put security maybe between scientist and analyst
Could you make a vid of the courses high school students should take to set themselves up to go into compsci.
added to my list of future videos, thanks for the suggestion!
What are your thoughts on developers vs engineers? In the UK 'developer' seems to be the main term, with software engineers being reserved for an elect few yet with no clear distinction as to when one crosses the threshold. It seems elsewhere the 2 terms are interchangeable... can be mighty confusing lol
software engineer and software developer are equivalent to me at least
@@namanhkapur thanks for that. Some great content and insights btw bud, keep it up!
Could you make a video about somewhat related fields, like Data Science for example? for example: How do tech startups utilise Data Science and is there any collab going on between Software Engineers? I fucking love your videos bhai
thanks for the suggestion, added to my list of future videos!
Hi! Been a Data scientist at a start up for about a year now. My experience is that the DS/ML engineer is the first person to explore any new features that are related to any stored/gathering data or requires some sort of modelling (ML), in my case, utilizing OCR techniques, NER models or other NLP related models (open source tools and cloud providers applications).
This includes making a plan for the full pipeline. So when a problem/feature has been identified and is ready to be built, I hook up with the rest of the engineering team to get design and make sure it is compatible with the rest of our stack. Before any integration I usually work by myself (since I don't have any other DS/ML on the team atm). Then I am the one who also pushes the new feature into our tech stack and makes sure it gets tested and monitored.
So from my experience a DS/ML engineer, identifies problems that can be solved with automation or other methods (ML, Regex, OCR etc), make initial assessments to solutions. Once a solution is approved by the rest of the team, start planing deployment and integration with the rest of the tech stack and execute on that with the rest of the engineer team (they might have to change some api, design etc)
I would guess that the bigger the company/organization, the more you specialize in one part of the pipeline, exploration, deployment, testing etc.
But this is just my experience, can't talk for others :)
@@arvidwenestam3421 Thanks for your input, greatly appreciated! I can tell by your name that you might be Dutch, German or Scandinavian (I'm from the Netherlands). Do you reckon there are going to be more jobs related to DS/ML in these countries? I've got an MSc in Business Management but am transitioning to DS atm.
@@H99x2 Scandinavian indeed :)
I think overall that transitioning to DS/ML can never be a bad thing. It includes a lot of tools, both academic (math and statistics) and pragmatic (programming, reporting and communication) that will come handy through out your career, no matter what role you end up in. I think the DS/ML job opportunities will not dip for a while. From my experience, in Scandinavia, if you have any skills in any programming you will with ease find a job (been a big deficit of workforce with that sort of skill up here for a long time).
I highly recommend the DS route as I feel that it opens up more doors on where to take your career, as it combines the math, programming but also decision influence.
@@arvidwenestam3421 Great, Thanks for your input mate. Greatly appreciated :)
The DS route interests me, because of the combination of the different fields. Reporting, Communication, Business-sense, Statistics, basic programming (R) and Econometrics are familiar topics for me, due to my academic background. So It's not an entirely new world for me, just need to brush up on a few other skills.
We have the same deficit in NL btw. The government is even giving every citizen a 1000euro budget to spend on any IT-related upskill course (which including DS) .
Great Video
😊
So informative
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I thought it was designers or engineers who think about what features a program should have and not the product managers.
I also doubt that people who know their way around management and finances are more technical than people who know their craft and work with tools and programs contributing to the actual development of the product.
Please explain
Most of these seem to be about software engineers in purely tech companies. How about software engineers in semiconductor manufacturing / hardware companies, medical technology, defense companies, low latency trading firms, etc? Like 3D software engineers or embedded software engineers or those that are in the research side of a tech company and those that work more with languages like C and C++ than JavaScript?
don't have much experience with non-tech companies, but i can research!
Impressive!!
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Great video! What about SQL developers. I keep seeing job postings with the title SQL developer.What does a SQL developer do? Which one of the roles described in the video is closest to SQL developer?
data engineer or data analyst would be closest in terms of sql skills -- depends on if it's "run queries and do something with the data" (data engineer) or "run queries and just give us data" (data analyst)
Hi man love the video but one question. Are Game developers considered as software engineers(Im a begineer) ?
i think they are different, less code, more working with skins and game engines and whatnot
if infrastructure engineers know so much, do they get paid more than software engineers? im new to the industry, any response would be great!
not necessarily, i’d say infra and software engineers get paid similar, but because problems in infra are so rough, there are more paths for faster promotion
brother, please make a video on how to apply for SWE without having Undergraduate background. And what to show on my resume?
did you watch my guide to software engineering video? i also just posted a resume video
@@namanhkapur oh my bad! I'll watch that video now brother😊😊
Hello tell me how's the career in UI UX I have started learning that, already have 2 years of experience as frontend developer (React And React Native) . but won't to move to UI UX now kindly guide me.
it’s a fun career, lots of creative freedoms - i’d suggest working in front end design and reusable components and then slowly moving to more ui work
Could you talk about your thoughts on Bolt layoff?
stay tuned!
Also another possible area which I think will become more popular in the coming years with the Metaverse, is Graphics. Some of the big companies are hiring AR/VR, Graphics or Visualization Engineers. So if any of you guys like that area, consider following that path 😊
agreed!
BHAIYA PLEASE TELL US ABOUT YOUR INDIAN SCHOOL OR COLLAGE . OR any kind of journey that you have experinced in india.
i was born in new delhi and did some summer schools to learn hindi, but that’s about it
@@namanhkapur okay nice.
Please explain connection of these roles in a company
what do you mean?
@@namanhkapur I mean when a company working on a project what is the procedure
Plz doing your videos with subtitles
thanks for the feedback! were there any parts that were more difficult to understand? can you provide timestamps please
Software engineer are front and center, no back mentioned :)
Does a degree matter at this point, I mean if you have skills and can prove it through maybe contests or projects or anything like that, would that be enough ?
Great Video btw👌
degree doesn’t matter as much as it used to
Cloud Engineers work for infrastructure then?
i’d say so
Can't you extensively detail for me software engineering cause that's where my interest is
Which pays the most
probably software engineering
Namanh secretly hates product managers🙃
I refuse to believe that ml engineers use ipynotebooks 🥴
it’s so nice
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i’ll take this as the first one
The data scientist also use Python
dawg sauce me dat bolt internship
for fall
if hiring freeze is over i gotchu
You forgot UX Engineers!
they’re at the end!
you'll be a googler in no time!!
maybe one day, not sure if i want a big company yet
6:10 What happened to your eyes
my contact fell out and then when i put it back, one eye was irritated
you forgot algo engineer :)
what do they do?
@@namanhkapur Algorithm Engineer (a job title), your main focus is to design algorithms, evaluate the efficiency of existing algorithms, and of course optimization.
@@danielazulay4936 wow never heard of this role, thanks for sharing! good to know
@@namanhkapur ur welcome!
@@namanhkapur ur welcome!
What about cloud engineers 😂
I made a similar video and I think we're on the same page. engineering would be so nice without the...users xD
the inevitable but unavoidable users