r/SoftwareEngineering

172k members
r/SoftwareEngineering is a subreddit with 172k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses software, ai, engineering, job, and hate, and they frequently recommend/review ui framework, backend framework, and ergonomic keyboard.

Popular Themes in r/SoftwareEngineering

#1
Advice Requests
: "I am interested in the thought of becoming a software engineer, but maybe for the wrong reasons... could someone advise me?"
5 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "Need help (technical), working on IoT telemetry pipeline, unable to find data parsing location."
4 posts
#3
Self-Promotion
: "I'm looking for coders that want to learn my language want to be able to write in it and make a difference make something better!"
1 post

Popular Topics in r/SoftwareEngineering

#1

Software

: "Symptoms of Bad Software Design"
35 posts
#2

Ai

: "The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AiScraping Economy"
15 posts
#3

Engineering

: "Is agentic AI changing team Engineering practices faster than we can govern them?"
11 posts
#4

Job

: "Rant. Please read. Feeling awful at the Job."
11 posts
#5

Hate

10 posts
#6

Software Engineering

: "2 Years After Graduation, Still Looking for My First Software Engineering Role"
9 posts
#7

Struggling

8 posts
#8

Hard Time

6 posts
#9

Interview

3 posts
#10

Worst

3 posts

Products Discussed in r/SoftwareEngineering

Ui Framework

5 reviews
#1
WPF
4.0 from 1 review
#2
ASP.NET
4.0 from 1 review
#3
PySide
4.0 from 1 review
#1
Spring Boot
4.0 from 1 review

Member Growth in r/SoftwareEngineering

Yearly
+21k members(14.2%)

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Last updated: August 6, 2026