# A day in the life of a professional software engineer

DevFeed: [A day in the life of a professional software engineer](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-professional-software-engineer-35367.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://darkcoding.net/software/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-professional-software-engineer/>)

Author: Graham King

Published: 2020-12-20T23:05:31Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Graham King](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/graham-king.md>)

Topics: [Data structures](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-structures.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding.md>), [hash](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hash.md>), [implementation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/implementation.md>)

Tags: [functions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/functions.md>), [hash](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hash.md>), [implementation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/implementation.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>), [software-engineer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-engineer.md>)

## AI overview

The article presents a humorous account of a typical day for a professional software engineer, describing work with linked lists, string search using Rabin-Karp and rolling hashes, sorting algorithms, Big O analysis, and tree data structures.

## Source excerpt

Just a normal day reversing linked lists on the whiteboard.