A software engineer combines many functions, and therefore, the curriculum includes more than just mathematics and development.

What happens if you survive everything

Jobs for a software engineer position are rare, but this is a matter of terminology. Software engineers can choose any direction in IT that they like, they can engage in management, programming, design, and both, or go to computer science.

Our graduates become powerful project leaders who not only grew out of coders, but understand all stages of project development computer hardware engineering.

Ekaterina Beresneva and Maria Gordenko remained in science. For example, Maria is looking for a method to solve the Chinese postman's problem. The goal of the task is to go through all the streets in the city along the shortest route so as not to go through the same place several times. Such calculations, for example, would be useful to snowblowers so that they do not clean the streets that have already been cleared, but rather go to the untouched rubble. But so far, despite the fact that computers calculate the route, their solution deviates from the optimal one by 10-20 percent. 

“We are trying to close this gap, and we partially succeeded,” Maria clarified. In her free time from science and teaching, she works as an analyst in Moscow City. For the first time she tried to work in this capacity during her training practice at S7, and she liked it.

“A software engineer is also an analyst,” explains Maria. "But, as a rule, graduates become programmers with different competencies, which is especially good for Agile teams, where each must have the competencies of the other." 

Graduates work in very different fields. Some are engaged in complex programming with heavy mathematics, others have become project managers, someone is a system architect, someone is engaged in development in the backend, someone is in the front-end - people who know and can, if not everything, then a lot, are needed in every big project.

In 2018, the curriculum received accreditation from ABET , the world's most respected professional organization for evaluating the quality of programs in engineering and computer technology. So, graduates began to enjoy even greater benefits for international companies. A diploma approved by an organization that collects the best educational programs in computer and engineering technologies is a quality mark for training a young specialist that does not require additional confirmation. 

“Although I remained to teach, they are trying to lure me into commercial projects,” says Ekaterina. - And not for the initial Junior position, but immediately on the Middle, and this is immediately a salary of about two hundred thousand rubles a month. After graduation, you can go anywhere. You can even come to the company for a Junior position in your third year, and they will take you. And not because you have a HSE crust, but because by the third year you already know how everything works, and you know how to work yourself. The main thing is to get this knowledge and not shirk from the process. "