Real Engineering Work
Candidates who struggle with abstract puzzles can still be valuable engineers when they can debug, reason through production issues, and work in real systems. The cited work breakdown says engineering consists of 80% debugging, 15% reading…
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Candidates who struggle with abstract puzzles can still be valuable engineers when they can debug, reason through production issues, and work in real systems. The cited work breakdown says engineering consists of 80% debugging, 15% reading documentation, and 5% writing new code. Strong puzzle performers may still be weak engineers if puzzle performance does not translate to real-codebase work. The article characterizes real software engineering as mostly maintenance, investigation, and understanding existing systems.