A Day in the Life of a Software Engineer
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A day in the life of a software engineer. I worked really hard on this video and I hope y’all enjoy it! This is a fairly typical day in my life as a software engineer. I understand I may have glossed over a few things, so please, leave your questions below!
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I document and share my experiences on topics including computer science & software engineering. I'm a full-time Software Engineer and a part-time TH-camr. My less nerdy activities include fishing, hunting, surfing, and snowboarding. I'm just here to have some fun.
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Totally unrealistic....he plugged in the USB cable on the first try!
Lol, you've got a sharp eye
Lol, what's unrealistic in that
Wow you've got sherlock holmes level of observing people!
@@Adarsh-mn7pl r/woooosh
@@Luka-sf3vu ja ja ja ja ja
Wow, the first video where they talk about their actual job. Not just eating and staring at the screen. The best one I’ve seen! Love your content!
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
So True
This video ended alot of softdevs youtube careers. lol
Maybe i am watching day in the life videos just because of the food?
I just scrolled down to the comments to say this! The rest of these videos are so pointless I almost didnt even click on this one. What a pleasant surprise.
Finally a Software Dev/Engineer that actually showers. I thought I was alone in this world...
Every Engineer/Developer showers it's just a stereotype that they don't shower
Matt Fenlon you shower once a week...thats gross
@Danxry How about you?
Arwah Sapi everyday.
@@danxry1829 r/woosh
He wakes up and gets off the bed immediatey. When I wake up I need to roll on bed for 10min and then complain about getting out off the bed and then I can get off the bed.
He did all that why setting up the camera lol, nobody escapes the early morning
@@J90JAM I literally run out of bed the moment I hear the alarm go off
@@insitakaya1672 I power jump of the bed.
At least he gets to wake up an hour before I have to. I set my alarm as the one that pisses me off the most.
1:30PM - Wake Up
1:31PM - Go onto stack overflow
2:30AM - git push
3:00AM - sleep
😂👌
Enter passphrase for key:
You gotta git sleep.
@@TheNeonMind No.
Pornhub should be there.
Fake! This isnt a day in the life of a software engineer. Where is the multiple coffee breaks? No fake-ass-typing-keyboard pretending to code? Why is there so much work? Wait, a breakdown into the process of ur work? This is unreal
Finally a real A Day In A Life Of A Software Engineer. Thumbs Up!
it's because everyone else copying mayuko
as a person working software, it is true I do sometimes pretend to code and then browse on my phone when no one is around
It's true, when I've got no idea what to do I pretend to type
John Wig ok
This made me feel better because I do some of that fake ass typing when I'm frustrated with a piece of code and have to take a break.
Open the video.
See *Wake Up: **6:50*
Close the video.
@Mr. Spaghetti this is too much
Yeah, imagine sleeping in past 5
@IIyass on my momma!!! 😂😂😭
Too earlyyy
Too earlyyy
I'm gonna do this but it's gonna be "A day in the life of a Mcdanolds employee"
I would watch it
Impossible to film yourself if you aren't a drive thru worker. I work at McDonald's and you can't use your phone during the shift. Only during break times. :P
McDan
Is it better than this lol
The horror
I have watched a ton of "day in the life of software engineer" videos that other TH-camrs have created and not to talk bad about other ones, but this one is the first one that I have encountered that has been realistic and informative. I really enjoyed this video, keep up the great work and videos Forrest!
no like for real he literally talks about his job and not just a dry overview of like them at a keyboard fast fowarded really cool!
Have you seen a day in the life of a Japanese video game developer?
#1 - Wake up with GoPro fixated on head
Cool Vid!!
It has arrived 👏👏😅
Love the fast paced editing style.
Much appreciated!
You're like the Keanu Reeves of comp sci
neo is the one
A day in the life of an software engineer: stackoverflow.
I always see these comments is it for real though?
@@JoshT4life this guy prolly hit his head on a dry wall or something cuz he dumb for saying dat
Problem is you don't always get everything there...you have to think a lot more than that ...
@@luicisidafaxo6330 Looks like I offended Jesus! I'm sorry my lord! 🙏
@@niveyoga3242 its jared leto, how hard did u hit your head?
It's pretty much to what I'm doing at my company during my internship. I'm really glad that we have a pretty similar day 😍! Good job!
why do people brush their teeth then eat breakfast? It defeats the entire purpose!
reggeh mon so you don’t swallow all the bacteria that your mouth collects kvernight
@@heysushii5181 I meaan I just rinse with water, scrape my tongue and spit it out, I feel like that's fine if you just don't eat after brushing at night
at least you'll have clean teeth after breakfast and enough time will have passed since you ate it so that you can brush after showering
As a 20 year old in his first year as a CS student, you are my hero. These videos are amazing
Nice! I got the same video from Russian engineer ^)
But he eats, oh wait drinks vodka for lunch?😅 just kidding bro
I remember a couple of years ago when I was choosing my major, I searched for day in the life videos of software engineers and they all sucked. This one is actually realistic and good! Glad you made this!
Thank you for actually showing your screen
Sure thing! I did as much as possible but of curse had to blur/cover at moments.
Lmao you didn’t stand up during the stand up boi you wild
just wondering from an aspiring software dev, do y’all make good money? sorry if that’s intrusive
Seriously everyone wants to know
My exact Panda E order every time I go. Subbed.
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Lol thanks.
Thanks for actually showing what you do unlike other software engineers! This is much more informative and gives me great insight. Definitely earned a subscriber.
I don't know why I'm watching this video if I study psychology
lmaoo and I am studying mechanical engineering and I subscribe
Daymao Silva at least mechanical engineering is kinda close
lol ima pre med to surgeon...Your thinking of switching majors! I know I asked myself the same question 😂
You know you want to switch majors
My routine is pretty similar go in at 9am take 30min walk lunch leave at 5pm and I got fired...
Thanks love your vidoes always great !! You’re a main reason why I changed my major to computer science and been loving it since I found your videos last year keep it man much love from Cal Poly Pomona !!👍🏾👍🏾
I'm happy to help. I appreciate the support and good luck with CS!
00:00 You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there.
Being an ethical hacker I'm feeling pity for these developers, they spend days together to develop a project and we on the other hand spend some few hours to find all the vulnerabilities
Why pity? You are helping them
@@bigrafati1221yeah ur right
Harish Vanjari ..
@@firmman4505?
Is it worth becominng a "hacker" or going into cyber security? Please answer lol
I have never seen a drive-thru Panda Express before. Neat.
I wish I could
finish my job at 5 PM lol
Too many meetings. I thought being a dev was a quiet job,everyone lied to me.
I use to watch your videos when I was working a regular job and going to college. Now I work the 9 to 5 as a IT. Thank you for your videos
You're left handed that's cool
LOL 1:16 you were listening joe rogan podcast ? hahah its awesome
yeah the russel brand one lol
yeah its the best podcast
Quality stuff keep it up, and i'm studying software engineering and i want to know what kind of software process does your company work on and what kind of software testing you do? I'm very bored with the theories of the subject "Software Engineering" 😐
This is so interesting to me. I'm a blue collar worker and I work 12 hour shifts in my feet and I'm just getting into programming and I think about how hard it will be sitting all day I'd have to start running. Thank you for sharing your story.
Good luck 👍👍
how is it going ?
Same i’m a very outdoorsey person and was considering being a cs major but idk if i can sit all day
Wow. We have the same Panda order. I felt that
09:00 ~ 10AM wake up
10 AM get to work at home , few min to see daliy job list . don 't have time eat breakfast
12:30PM take a rest and get lunch , no walk out
13:30 PM keep code and work
18:00 PM take rest and get dinner ,more times I work midnight .... I'm chinese soft ware engineer .
That's Asian companies and work culture for you. No respect for the well being of the workers.
I learned about software engineering and that Panda Express has drive-thrus. I see this as win
did someone tell u ur beard is majestic
luici sidafaxo beard AND hair! Dude looks like a freakin' male hair model! Lol
You ordered my signature plate at Panda Express! You have now inspired me to become a Software Engineer.
More like: "A day in a life of a typical 9 to 5" :)
Not to mention hourly pay is pretty Goooood
thank you so much for the skillshare link! I have finals coming up and I want to get an internship at Google and I know this will help!
Thank you for the support! Good luck with getting the internship!
Edit: Oh, and finals of course.
ForrestKnight thank you😂 I’m gonna need it
"I love you!"
"Bye."
This is my day EXACTLY. I'm also a software engineer. Except I get interrupted by like 3 meetings a day minimum. Can't get shit done in the office so I end up working late at night to do any actual work. Blows.
Great video! I liked how you played with the camera in a CaseyNeistat-like way! Keep it up dude
You should have shown us more of the REALLY important things, like ur dog
That shit is painful, I always feel pain in my Butt every time so I just stand go out for a few seconds, coz I hate sitting down for longer period
I liked the editing and realistic perspective 👏👏
He is like Kane Williamson of New Zealand cricket team
Man I'm so glad this is my major.... such a "hard" day for 150k a year or at least 80
The thing is as a software engineer you don't get "at least 80" the average income is like 75k if you wanna be making 150k you'd probably have to climb the corporate ladder on a big tech company and become an extra well paid senior dev or manager.
Wow, this poor guy has the most boring job ever.
I think software engineers are amazing! I can’t even begin to think about all the skills you would need to acquire to do that work!
Thanks for reminding me why I chose my major. Only a few semesters left.
I don't want to go to college for computer science or become a software engineer after watching so many videos of what they do.
Why xD, im a first year computer science major and so far its fascinating, though im not interested in working as a software engineer, id rather be a researcher and professor.
If you didn’t work and didn’t need that VPN to connect to the thing. Would you still code in Linux Ubuntu or just in macOS or Windows? Environment?
2:49 Invisible Arm. Alien caught
Hi Forrest, my name is Jun, who wants to become a software engineering from scratch. I have graduated from college with a science degree, and have only basic knowledge about python. I want to get hired as a software engineer hopefully by next September or before. What do you think of the 2,3months of coding bootcamps? They claim they teach enough things so that I can get hired after the camp with decent salary 70k+. If you have any friends who went through this process as a non-major, I would appreciate your thought.
Also, do you have any recommendations on which language I should self-study and any web sites?
I would really appreciate your input and it would help me tons. Always enjoying your videos. Thanks!
I’m very young, literally still in elementary school, and HTML is a good one to start learning and it’s easy to self-teach. Plus, you can create some pretty cool stuff and switch to other languages (such as Java, C# etc.) pretty smoothly.
Wow this is the most sincerely video of a software engineer it's not only eat and go to walk like the others videos on TH-cam, greetings from Dominican Republic
9-5 what a dream. I work from 8-5...
XilumX1 Only 8-5?
plus the time it takes for you to drive to work and back home add another 1-2 hours of life wasted :)
I work from 630 to 5, 7 to 6, 7 to 5, 7 to 4, 11 to 8, 11 to 9 11 to 7, 330 to 1230 330 to 1 330 to 3 am it never stops and its all random
You said you did some blue collar jobs before realizing you wanted to do software development for a career. Did you put those blue collar jobs on your resume when applying for software jobs? I heard some ppl like to leave them off because HR ppl will judge you & not give you a call back?
thats not true actually. as a matter of fact, HR would love to actually hire those with blue collar background (given they meet the requirements etc) as they are more exposed with a different type of skillset from white collar and they have more empathy towards blue collar ppl.
Wait....did he just say puppy classes?
start:
Spend the whole day to submit a pull request
sleep
wake up
53 comments on pull request
pull request denied
goto start
6:44 shaggy, that is you?
What would you recommend for a starting embedded programmer in terms of OS. I'm liking the idea of using Ubuntu 19.04 but also really liking win10. Have played around with a dual boot setup before.
You should consider using Ubuntu 18.04 since it's a Long Term Support release, meaning it will be supported for 5 years while 19.04 only gets support for 9 months.
@@BalduinBiene Well isn't 19.04 with the new kernel a better choice? Don't get me wrong, both 19.04 and 18.04.2LTS work fine.
@@Deedss91 Depends on what you want to do with the OS and if you don't mind reinstalling in a few months (in case of 19.04). If you have new hardware, a newer kernel might have better support for it. But apart from that, you can also develop on older kernels without problems. There are a lot of developers using Debian which in the standard stable version uses an quite old kernel. Do you have any experience with Linux so far? If not, I would choose an LTS version of Ubuntu (18.04) or, coming from Windows, you could try Linux Mint which also offers updates for several years.
I'm sure agile is an amazing way of working when used correctly...
But on my work I'm getting tired of constant and multiple daily meetings that got way off topic. Sorry for the rant. Amazing video. Subscribed.
j m same, shit makes me want to nut in my own eye socket
Do you work for NS? When you logged into the VM it showed NS privacy message. I'm a conductor for them in Ohio is why i'm asking!
Can you work home as a software engineer
Light Farmer yes
Only one meeting and .. going home at 5 pm? Were you on vacation that day?
Why are these " A Day in the Life of a ________" blowing up so fast?
People are graduating
wow this is surprisingly accurate, most of these type of videos are super uninformative, good job!
I work from home. I would love an office environment mainly to have a trigger in my routine for my brain that lets me know I'm "at work". What's an affordable (free?) solution for me do you think?
Nice Video! I've only just recently found your channel and it's awesome! Keep it up :)
Thank you!
Hello from India !! I am coming to University of British Columbia to pursue my computer science degree. I just wanted to know which laptop should I buy. I was thinking of buying mac book pro 13 inch.And I've learned the basics of C language which language should I learn next.
why do you use a virtual machine
he prefers an ubuntu dev environment (most developers use/prefer windows, but windows/macos/linux are all viable for software development)
@@justin_ooo thanks
First time , for a change saw a NON Macbook Laptop in these kind of videos
Oh mein Gott! It's an engineer/dev with a TH-cam channel instead of a TH-camr with an engineering/cs degree! Subbed and recommended to my friends.
ForrestKnight: Plugs in the USB at first try
Me: Wait thats illegal
What are you using ubuntu ?
I never seen a drive threw Chinese spot 😂
I KNOW! Me neither! Seeing one is like going to another planet
had to toss a like after you ordered orange chicken & beijing beef, absolutely the way to go
That was the best way I’ve ever heard anyone on TH-cam ask you to subscribe. Didn’t sound pushy, lame, or annoying. 👍🏼
How much do u get paid?
Nice! I've heard that exact JRE podcast
A drive-thru Panda Express?! 🤯
CalabarSweetii we have them in Florida too
What about the doggo? What does it do alone or is someone looking after it? I NEED TO KNOW
*I* *think* *coding* *has* *great* *potential* *to* *boosting* *income* , *but* *I*
*am* *unsure* *if* *this* *is* *what* *many* *people* *REALLY* *want* *in*
*life* . Perhaps what people are really looking for is a higher then normal
paying job with time to spare to enjoy life. I want to run by you guys the idea
of *passive* *income* . A way to be financially free to choose what you want to
do. Take a deep dive into this. I have a few videos that may help. Take care
everyone.
Cool
In all this type of videos the developer is always single.
I'm actually married, but my wife had a very busy day so didn't make an appearance.
*Uses VSCode* Ah I see ur an intellectual fellow developer.
Me as student
Wake up -12:00Pm
Do every shit you know before - 13:00Pm
Go in School - 13:30Pm
Launch in-14:00Pm
Came home at- 18:30Pm
Coding until-1:30Pm
Who would have known shaggy is also a software engineer
hahah
I noticed the NS calendar...I’m an engineer there. Funny how the world works.
Thank you for making this video. I plan on becoming a software engineer when I grow up(I have a lot to learn though). Discovering this channel and video has inspired me even more.
There's a problem in our society.. To shower everyday. That's drinkable water going down the drain.
Realise how much that is when it's used by almost every household each day, (sometimes in case of family even 3-7 times if not double that (some people or families shower twice a day)).
Showering once or three times a week should be enough (with exception to physical labour), add towels and use a bit of water with soap to clean yourself on the important areas the rest of the days. Showering everyday is actually bad for the skin too.
Why do you think allergies are starting to grow more common? Because we get too clean.
Anyway, do as you please. But I find it weird how resource unaware we have become.
What up, it's Dragon. Peace.
I drink my coffee before I go to work...but hey I'm professional what do I know.
This is the dude from how to train a dragon
hiccup haha
2 questions pls someone answer this.
1- what happens to the puppy the ENTIRE time forest is working ????
2- what is VN which he mentioned in the start of the video which takes 2 seconds to 3 minutes to start??
Pls help