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Also applies to software developers.
Edit before send: just realised you wrote "developers" not "engineers". (What is the difference?)
I think this mostly applies to software engineers, rather than "regular" engineers. On the topic, am I the only one who thinks people should specify "software", not just say engineer?
I may be biased, but when someone just answers "engineer" I assume they mean of the "physical" variety (mechanical, civil, structural, chemical, etc), not software.
I mean, I don't really know how we're defining an engineer these days, we don't all work with engines, so I suppose that's out the window. Just don't know where we're drawing the line.
An accountant does problem solving, and takes inputs and outputs to do calculations. Are we calling them money engineers now?
This genuinely confuses me haha
Engineer is a protected title in my country, so most software developers are not legally engineers here. Although in usage the term is often interchanged with "developer" in terms of software.