Cat-like reflexes and the ability to bat away stress are must-have qualities in this career! Genuine heroes in the eyes of their clients, support engineers step in whenever there’s an IT issue to identify a solution as quickly as possible. And it goes without saying, their services are always required “urgently”.
Fun fact
One of the most expensive bugs in history... In 2004, the UK’s Child Support Agency invested in a new IT system that was supposed to speed up child support payments. Unfortunately, the complex system contained a number of bugs. The result? 1.9 million people were accidentally overpaid, another 700,000 were underpaid, and a backlog of 239,000 cases very quickly built up. The total cost of this shambles? Over half a billion pounds – enough to bring every support engineer out in a cold sweat: “You have 30 missed calls”...
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