> Web developers don't typically deal with the sort of algorithmic problems that software engineers tend to deal with. Software Engineers rarely deal with the

> Web developers don't typically deal with the sort of algorithmic problems that software engineers tend to deal with. Software Engineers rarely deal with the sort of algorithmic problems you're thinking of. Engineering isn't about the basic fundamentals of CS. It's about thinking in systems. A person developing an individual component of a system may deal with algorithmic problems, but unless they're also contributing to the architecture and design of the system as a whole they aren't doing engineering, either.