by phrebh January 23, 2004
Get the software engineermug. one who is an engineer of software and spends 20 percent of his/her day doing so the other 80 percent is looking up porn!
by Dr. Fatz February 2, 2004
Get the software engineermug. A person who is rejected by the Engineering community, due to a dispute over whether software engineering is really engineering, despite the fact that software engineers don't purely write code and actually are taught other aspects of engineering.
John (Mech Eng): Hey Jim, what do you do for a living?
Jim: I'm a software engineer.
John: Nerd!
Jim: Yeah? Well this nerd wrote the program for the flight computer of the aircraft you are designing, as well as the program you used to design it. Lazy ass.
John: Meehheeh fucker. *Aside* (Dude I wish I make as much as he does. All these stupid fucking problems I did and all I get for it is to be made fun of by a rather sexy man actually.)
Jim: I'm a software engineer.
John: Nerd!
Jim: Yeah? Well this nerd wrote the program for the flight computer of the aircraft you are designing, as well as the program you used to design it. Lazy ass.
John: Meehheeh fucker. *Aside* (Dude I wish I make as much as he does. All these stupid fucking problems I did and all I get for it is to be made fun of by a rather sexy man actually.)
by LUENGSTUDENT March 23, 2011
Get the Software Engineermug. Software engineering is the application of science
to consistently produce software based systems
that are acceptable against the needed criteria
(reliability, maintainability, security, safety,
efficiency, usability) in a cost effective way.
to consistently produce software based systems
that are acceptable against the needed criteria
(reliability, maintainability, security, safety,
efficiency, usability) in a cost effective way.
by Matt Sharpe February 5, 2004
Get the software engineeringmug. A self grandiose term to describe an industry which actually has no engineering foundations. Often filled with examples of Dunning Kruger, Conway's Law, Narcissism and Elitism.
by mactel March 12, 2017
Get the software engineeringmug. Someone with big brains and who works his freaking tail off and is going to be (or has already been) laid off, just to be replaced by some low-life and low-wage counterpart in india, so greedy corporations can increase their margins and offer a crapper service.
IBM announces it creates 1,500 new Software Engineering jobs (but they don't disclose it's in freaking india or china).
by MaxCool February 8, 2004
Get the Software Engineermug. The process of defining the actual functionality of a software program, the planning and programming of said software.
by Marvin January 22, 2004
Get the software engineeringmug.