Is there a Software Developer/Engineer out there willing to do an interview? I am in my first term for a degree in development and this is a course requirement. I don't know any developers personally and would appreciate anyone who is willing to help. Thanks.

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Short note for the thread: thanks to , and for the quick replies so far. Below are practical, non-redundant suggestions to help turn those answers into a solid interview for your coursework and to give you concrete ways to keep learning as you move through the degree.

For the interview itself — send the questions in advance and ask for a preferred format (5–10 minute phone call, 20–30 minute Skype/Zoom, or short written answers by email). Add 3 follow-ups that invite concrete examples: "Describe a recent bug you fixed and how you diagnosed it," "What tools and artifacts do you touch every day (repo, tickets, CI)?" and "How do you measure success on your team?" Always ask permission to quote or anonymize responses for your assignment, and avoid requests for proprietary code or confidential details.

On keeping up with technology — balance reading with hands-on work. Schedule a small weekly habit (one focused hour or two 25-minute Pomodoros): read release notes or a high-quality blog, do a mini-project that uses a new library, and review 1–2 active open-source pull requests. Use community signals (forums, project issue trackers, conference talks) to spot trends, but learn by building: a short side project or contribution gives far more traction than passive reading. Rotate focus every few months (web frontend, backend, testing, cloud/ops) to build breadth.

Time management tips to use now — time-box deep work, batch meetings and shallow tasks, put a "no meetings" block on your calendar for focused coding, and use simple triage (urgent/important) on your task list. When juggling study, work, and family, protect fixed blocks for family first and slot study around them; small daily consistency beats rare long sessions.

Checklist to post with your request: preferred interview format, how you'll use/credit answers, 3 follow-up prompts asking for examples, and an estimate of time required.

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Post the interview questions here and perhaps someone will oblige to answer them.

I've listed the interview questions below. Thank you in advance, for your time and effort.

1. What is your title?
2. What are your responsibilities?
3. What kinds of skills do you need to perform your job?
4. Describe what you do during a typical day.
5. What other jobs have you held that might have helped prepare you for this position?
6. Do you have people who work for you, and what do they do?
7. What is one of the most challenging things about the work you do?
8. What time management tips could you suggest?
9. How do you balance your family, job, work, and leisure time?
10. What advice would you give to someone interested in this career?

1. What is your title?
"Software Engineer"
2. What are your responsibilities?
Anything that has to do with writing code, designing code, fixing code, and figuring out bugs exhibited at customers, that were caused by our code. And some occasional interviewing.
3. What kinds of skills do you need to perform your job?
Thinking, mostly. Some typing.
4. Describe what you do during a typical day.
Read code reviews, think about what code to write, and write code. And summarizing the code I wrote.
5. What other jobs have you held that might have helped prepare you for this position?
Other programming jobs.
6. Do you have people who work for you, and what do they do?
No.
7. What is one of the most challenging things about the work you do?
Tracking side effects in a horribly designed code base.
8. What time management tips could you suggest?
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9. How do you balance your family, job, work, and leisure time?
My job time and work time are well-balanced.
10. What advice would you give to someone interested in this career?
Write as much code as you can and do it in a diversity of programming languages.

1. What is your title?
Edjucation :Software Engineer/ Job Title Senior Technical Advisor
2. What are your responsibilities?
Technical Support for Clients, Testing and Developing our Software product
3. What kinds of skills do you need to perform your job?
programming, imagination, patience
4. Describe what you do during a typical day.
Writting answers to clients, manging forum, testing new features, developing applications
5. What other jobs have you held that might have helped prepare you for this position?
Project engineer/developer
6. Do you have people who work for you, and what do they do?
No
7. What is one of the most challenging things about the work you do?
Ensuring the software product is bug free and keeping customers satisfied.
8. What time management tips could you suggest?
No matter what you are doing, never give up!!!
9. How do you balance your family, job, work, and leisure time?
Job/work during the week, family/leisure-time weekends, holidays...
10. What advice would you give to someone interested in this career?
It's not a job it's an adventure :) So try as many different things as possible, ALWAYS keep up with the technology, do not be left behind...

Rashakil Fol and robertek,
Thank you so much for responding! I have some really good material to use for my assignment, but most importantly I have some insight on the career that I would like to pursue.

All,
I have a quick question for anyone: What is the best way to "keep up with technology?" What tools do you use and do you find yourself attending some type of training for your job?

Thank you again for all of your help.

Well one of the best ways is just as it is here. Join in on the forums, many people will make new posts about up and coming or new methods of doing things.

Along with that conferences or seminars might help. I'm sure we all are on some Microsoft or tech e-mail list, take a second and read them sometimes.

Frequent the websites for the software you use, .net take a look at msdn, java take a look at the java site.

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