What kind of job is of a software engineer(actually)?

Question

What do a software engineer really do in his office or cabin?
Does he sit on his chair whole day and write codes?
Is the job of software engineer different in companies like google,microsoft,facebook
than it services company?

Answer 1

I studied software engineering and never wrote a single line of code, What we did was only learned how things are designed . We had a project were we had to design what we thought minecraft would look like. But before we did software engineering course we were already expected to have done java in other courses.

Answer 2

Writing code