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Programmers don't do any of that. At most companies they don't even have the rights to do any of that. Nor do they have any responsibility/expectation to do any of those tasks.
Google used to ask prospective programmers bizarre questions like "how many golf balls fit in a jumbo jet", "how many windows are there in San Francisco", "distribute the gold on a pirate ship without getting killed by the crew". Computer Science is not really about running or maintaining computers. It is about algorithms. Problems like this one, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knapsack_problem. The specifics of the job can range from bug hunting to creating a completely new language and compiler from the ground up. It gets very specialized.
So no, not at all the same job![]()
Last edited by invibe; 06-09-2014 at 09:21 PM.
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