• Question: what do you like about working as an engineer?

    Asked by tasha_cooley to Fran, Peppe, Greg, Petros, Pooja, Rumman on 8 Nov 2017. This question was also asked by k.mbappe29.
    • Photo: Petros Papapanagiotou

      Petros Papapanagiotou answered on 8 Nov 2017:

      I like the fact that I get to create new and useful things with brand new technologies. It’s almost like art, like a musician making some music, or a painter making a painting. When you create something and you hit that button and you shout out “IT WORKS” and then you use it to help people make their lives easier, this is very rewarding to me. I also get to have a sneak peak into the future and the cool gadgets and technologies that are not in our homes just yet. I get to look “behind the scenes” so to speak, and understand how things work. I’m the kind of person who dies to know how magicians do their tricks!

    • Photo: Giuseppe Cotugno

      Giuseppe Cotugno answered on 8 Nov 2017:

      I like hacking things: cheating the software on an electronic board so that it thinks I am a computer instead of a person, making my own wires of many different colours to power on a board (as I need them anyway, I prefer them to be pretty), manually altering the bytes of some memory to fool a program into doing something else (to check whether the program fails or not). All this actions allow me to understand how things work deep inside, which is the best bonus of being an engineer

    • Photo: Fran Zuch

      Fran Zuch answered on 8 Nov 2017:

      I like the fact that we can build a software and products that will be useful to people. It is nice to actually see something come to life and be created and hopefully, it will do what we intend it to do. That would be the jackpot.
      We also get to look at lots of new things, like checking out AI and figuring out if and how we can use it. It is just very exciting to look at problems and come up with solutions.

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