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Re:Ask HN: Stay at Big Tech or leave? by badpun on Saturday January 06, 2024 @03:41PM (#38895234)
> I really love software engineering. I'm the kind of person who spent hours in their free time coding up their pet projects.

What you described at your job _is_ software engineering. Software engineering might have a large programming component in it, or it might not.

Re:Ask HN: Stay at Big Tech or leave? by streakofred on Sunday January 07, 2024 @02:43PM (#38904461)
Yeah that is probably true - maybe it's just not the kind of software engineering I like.