A duck sat in their pink wallpapered office typing on their keyboard, which two desktop screens: one displays a command line and the other displays a generic desktop wallpaper. Also on the desk there is a cactus, coffee mug, pen pot, book, and a mouse. There is light shining in from the window. — Working as a Software Engineer might look a little different to what you expect (illustration by @jy.paint)

What my first 6 months as a Software Engineer were like

5 min readMay 14, 2021

Back in the (crazy) year of 2020, I graduated from university. In doing so I got myself a Computer Science and Mathematics degree and also secured my first graduate job (yay!). Since then, I have been working as a Software Engineer at TomTom.

This is how that has been going…

What the first week was like

What my first 6 months as a Software Engineer were like

What the first week was like

Written by Katie Snell