Personal Narrative: My Interview With Gene Glick

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I interviewed Gene Glick. He currently resides in Stratford Connecticut. He
Has worked for a GE company on international cyber systems, Transwitch, and Dictophone. He currently works for APS Technology. His title is senior staff engineer. Most of the actual software work he does is individual consulting projects.
The types of Software systems Glick is working on currently are an old project for a consulting job in assembly language on a Z-80 processor, and personal jobs in java. The size of the team he works on is mostly individual when it comes to software. He mainly just deals with the head of the company he consults with. The technologies he mainly employs are GNU,
MIKE, IDE netbeans in java, and an automated build called ANT. He described his typical work
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He also said it is a good idea to keep up with new technology, and find challenges in any job I have. He said the three most relevant programming languages today are C, Java, and Python. His favorite project he ever worked on was product about security systems where video and audio were transmitted over fiber systems. Glick suggested that a good minor to combine with software engineering would be hardware engineering or some sort of applied minor in business applications or algorithm development. The operating systems he prefers to work on are Linux and Windows.
He said the hardest parts of the job are dealing with people he does not like, and coping with unrealistic deadlines that have no real reward. He says that the the project he is currently working on has been in the making for about 9 years. He also said that there is no product that is produced in less time than a year that is really worth selling. Glick said some ethical issues in the field would be opinions on working for the military, or on any projects in the medical field.
He also brought up the point to self- driving cars. He said that ethical questions come into

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