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There is a title arms race happening with programmers. If everyone is going to call themselves a Software Engineer on LinkedIn, and I decide to label myself as
by booleandilemma 10y ago
There is a title arms race happening with programmers.
If everyone is going to call themselves a Software Engineer on LinkedIn, and I decide to label myself as a Developer, or even worse, a Programmer, I'm going to miss out on opportunities that the "engineers" are going to get.
If you don't want programmers calling themselves engineers, just make it illegal for us to do so.
I know Texas and Canada already do.
- eru 10y agoIf you are relying on LinkedIn to get opportunities, you are going to miss out on a lot of them. (LinkedIn is a joke. And nobody gives a damn about what people call themselves.)
- booleandilemma 10y agoI know there is a lot of hate for LinkedIn here, and I agree 90% of LinkedIn is crap, but I did get my last job through LinkedIn, so I have to admit it's not all bad.
- eru 10y agoYes. It just feels like a bad dating website most times. Btw, I had a much better class of recruiter propositioning me on stackoverflow's careers website: http://stackoverflow.com/jobs http://stackoverflow.com/jobs Can recommend. (And I don't even have any real karma on stackoverflow.)