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You do realize you make a disservice to those who studied and worked hard to obtain a proper engineering degree, right?
by introvert0 7y ago
You do realize you make a disservice to those who studied and worked hard to obtain a proper engineering degree, right?
- pwinnski 7y agoWelcome to Hacker News. I think you might be lost. Friendly advice: Try spending some time reading posts and comments for a while to become familiar with the site before jumping in. Again, welcome.
- username90 7y agoFirstly software engineer is not a protected title in most of the world. Secondly the major way to properly learn proper software engineering is to join a top company and learn on the job. I don't see software engineering degrees containing anything useful at all compared to computer science degrees, they just contain some ancient practices which most of the industry moved past ages ago. So I don't really see how someone who studied software engineering at school is more of a software engineer than a person who designs and builds distributed systems at Google.
- erik_seaberg 7y agoThe "Fundamentals of Engineering - Electrical and Computer" exam requires topics from differential equations to impedance in AC circuits to op-amps to frequency modulation. I would never gong a candidate for not knowing any of those things, because we write computer software; we don't make our own servers out of magnetite and sand.