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Software Engineer vs Software Developer (programming.dev)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by fogetaboutit@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
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In your opinion what's the difference between the two? In my opinion both terms are frequently used interchangeably in the workplace.

But I'd like to consider myself as an engineer, because although I don't consider myself to be good at it, I think I cares about the software that I worked on, its interaction with other services, the big picture, and different kinds of small optimizations.

I mean, what is even engineering?

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[-] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 7 points 11 months ago

This is probably the most well-researched piece of writing on the matter: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/are-we-really-engineers/

[-] WldFyre@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

NGL I think that's a pretty crappy article. Very little of it is research, it's just assertions and arguing his POV philosophically. He also gets basic things wrong, and says "civil engineers work on buildings."

[-] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

The research is the interviews he did with engineers. That sentence is obviously a simplification, especially since he immediately follows it with one about talking to a civil engineer who builds mines.

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