Programming

MustafaQuraishi · February 6, 2013, 8:44pm

Re: Programming

Like I said, that used to be the case but not anymore. Software engineers are now more inclined with the business process as well as the technical process and are usually the ones performing gap analysis, etc when working with a project. Big companies don’t want to hire a whole team to perform software development so they hire one person that can do the job of all the aspects of SDLC. Back in the say you would have Systems Analyst, Systems Architect, Programmer, DBA, QA, etc but now they try to get as much out of one person rather than hiring more.

Also, I beg to differ about your logic that anyone with enough intellectual can learn programming. I have seen code written by people who became programmers like what you have defined and believe me I have had to write all the code from scratch since nothing there looked like code but a patchy job of putting together pieces that worked together.

I m sorry that you don’t see your work as an achievement but I m very proud to be in software development and at the end of the feel that I have achieved something if I can make someone’s life a bit easier by automation.

I would like to know for how long you have been in Software Industry.

for me its almost 6th year. I did undergrad from paksitan in CS and then Masters in Software security from Canada. Been 2 years that i have been working in one of the top global firm. Having a passion for something is totally different but making a good living out of it is totally different. If i was in Pakistan, I would have been earning a lot or perhaps would have my own software house (as most of my friends do now). But things in those countries which are outsourcing software development to Pakistan/India/China is totally different.

The saturation in IT field is so much that you can’t negotiate on your salaries. There is a dead end on your salary cap when you reach 90-100K (it will take you 4-8 years to be there) and after that, What ? Obviously you can’t stay on that job just because you have passion for it … will you ?

I am proud whatever i do as well since whatever i do, doesn’t effect only million of users, it effect everyone in the globe. But again, if i have been doing that much that i should be satisfied with my salary/pay-scale as well. IT People put more effort and get paid less.