What if you’re never good enough to be a software engineer? /u/Sensitive_Bison_4458 CSCQ protests reddit

I have a friend who is a data analyst at a big Fortune 500 company, he graduated with a computer science degree and did fairly well in all the programming courses. He was not a literal genius You might find at some universities in the computer science program. He struggles with lead code questions, and a lot of the logic for interview questions is actually fairly difficult for him. For example reversing a linked list, or creating a result set that is a palindrome, stuff like that…

So I posed to him a question. What if you’re not meant to be a software engineer? And to him, that question was unacceptable. “I’ll get there someday, I know I meant to be a software engineer. I’m just not there yet.” That was his response. The thing is, when you look at interview questions for software engineers and coding tests and everything that a software engineer requires, you have to think, aren’t there certain people that should not be software engineers? This is really complicated and difficult stuff, people with a math background will thrive because lots of software engineering and coding problems are heavily based on arithmetic, math, logic. Some people are just not puzzle solvers. They are good at communicating and working on projects, but when you ask them to do something absolutely stupid like create some formulaic asynchronous program in C sharp, they just can’t do it…..

So yeah, my question. Are there certain people that should not be software developers Because it’s just not a good fit for them and their ability set? What do you think?

I have a friend who is a data analyst at a big Fortune 500 company, he graduated with a computer science degree and did fairly well in all the programming courses. He was not a literal genius You might find at some universities in the computer science program. He struggles with lead code questions, and a lot of the logic for interview questions is actually fairly difficult for him. For example reversing a linked list, or creating a result set that is a palindrome, stuff like that…

So I posed to him a question. What if you’re not meant to be a software engineer? And to him, that question was unacceptable. “I’ll get there someday, I know I meant to be a software engineer. I’m just not there yet.” That was his response. The thing is, when you look at interview questions for software engineers and coding tests and everything that a software engineer requires, you have to think, aren’t there certain people that should not be software engineers? This is really complicated and difficult stuff, people with a math background will thrive because lots of software engineering and coding problems are heavily based on arithmetic, math, logic. Some people are just not puzzle solvers. They are good at communicating and working on projects, but when you ask them to do something absolutely stupid like create some formulaic asynchronous program in C sharp, they just can’t do it…..

So yeah, my question. Are there certain people that should not be software developers Because it’s just not a good fit for them and their ability set? What do you think?