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What is the biggest misconception about being a software developer?

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Jason C. McDonald

Or, worse yet, diagnosing printer driver problems anywhere. It involves a lot of dark magic that I prefer not to defile myself with, haha.

(Props to anyone who CAN do this!)

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Periklis Gkolias

That the job is "paid to google things". Sadly from an opinion coming from "senior engineers" too

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Ash

Those who know JavaScript know Java

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Melanie Phillips

This ^ lol

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ImTheDeveloper

When asked the following in a meeting you have just joined:

"So what is the solution for X"

I think this adequately applied to when I was a developer as well as solutions architect. I dislike listing the many options available and sounding like I can't decide which is best like that.

Picking the right solution needs an understanding of multiple views/facets and randomly being asked in meetings is cringe.

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Pandita

that people don't believe that after working I'm tired because software development is not a physical work ;------;

I'm constantly exercising my brain! It gets tired DX

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Jack

💯

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Giuseppe Silletti

That they are supposed to be coding monkeys. There's a whole non-technical side of software development that is usually forgotten (ex. understanding the impact of the work on the business or product's users)

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Kiran Capoor

The biggest misconception I have come across is that — software development is easy.
This is especially said and implied by seniors in our industry who have 10000+ hours under their belt. They keep forgetting their origins...

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Ryan Brown

That we don't know or care much about hardware, network, infrastructure or security concerns. (This coming mostly from people just focused on those areas)

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Bharat

Can hack NASA!

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Mugoya Dihfahsih

using html, what a misconception