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Systems engineering in the software industry (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My last job was at a company that designed and built satellites to order. There was a well defined process for this, and systems engineers were a big part of it. Maybe my experience there is distorting my perspective, but it seems to me that any sufficiently complex project needs to include systems engineering, even if the person doing that is not called a systems engineer. Yet as far as I can tell, it isn't really a thing in the software industry. When I look at job postings and "about us" blog posts about how a company operates, I don't see systems engineering mentioned. Am I just not seeing it, is it called something else, or is the majority of the industry somehow operating without it?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

i did the facebook interview month long process a year ago and they were all about systems engineering at every level. the thing was, they had their own way of doing it and try to get me to pay $60 for their bullshit training to even use the same jargon.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

If you described what a "systems engineer" did that'd be a big help.