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Re:Never work as a software engineer in a startup by _benj on Thursday December 10, 2020 @02:55PM (#25377776)
I think the title might me slightly misleading, but I completely agree. I appreciate the distinction between "product engineer" and "software engineer".

Personally I prefer a lot more the role of product engineer, all the way from talking with customers to debugging PostgreSQL sequence that went astray. Looking a jobs around me and how specialized and (in my view) limited in scope...

I'd choose working on a startup any day, with a loose job description, figuring stuff out and delivering to customers than the traditional "assembly line programmer" that I see around me.

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Re:Never work as a software engineer in a startup by veebuv on Thursday December 10, 2020 @10:31PM (#25381938)
``` product engineer, all the way from talking with customers to debugging PostgreSQL sequence that went astray. Looking a jobs around me and how specialized and (in my view) limited in scope... ```

Fully agree with you on this, I think its just the nature of the game that roles get more specialised as time flows, but the bond between customers and engineers should always exist

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