<ul><li>Software engineers may get in conflict with other members of organizations due to the nature of their work having measurable impact and a way to evaluate correctness.</li><li>Most employees in companies may not see a direct impact of trying harder, and their performance is often judged based on their boss's feedback.</li><li>In many organizations, employees typically wait for instructions from their boss and may not have clear standards to measure if they have done the task right.</li><li>Coding, being a field that has a way to evaluate correctness, sets software engineers apart from other jobs where the output may not have such clear evaluation criteria.</li></ul>

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