You don't have to have a software engineering degree or an EIT/PE to be a "software engineer". I know plenty of people who have vaguely related degrees like mat

You don't have to have a software engineering degree or an EIT/PE to be a "software engineer". I know plenty of people who have vaguely related degrees like mathematics or statistics that never had to take such courses. And of course there are many autodidacts in the field who studied god knows what.