While skilled software engineers are still rare enough to be coveted, programmers are a dime a dozen these days, many desperate to get their foot in the door to

While skilled software engineers are still rare enough to be coveted, programmers are a dime a dozen these days, many desperate to get their foot in the door to break into the industry. Licensed engineers, on the other hand, are hard to come by. Professional engineers spend years in school, then years training under a licensed engineer, and then finally take an arduous test with an abysmal passing rate to get their license. They aren't about to risk their entire career to satisfy some asshole manager, because the entire business depends on the engineer, not the other way around. It's a small community and word gets around.