It's funny, I actually have an undergraduate and graduate degree in engineering - but not software engineering - and I work as a software engineer. Yet I tell

It's funny, I actually have an undergraduate and graduate degree in engineering - but not software engineering - and I work as a software engineer. Yet I tell everyone that I'm a programmer/developer. To me, having seen what goes for engineering in other fields, I feel like a small subset of engineering jobs in non-software fields is true engineering. To me, that bar is inventing something worth patenting. I'd say its an even smaller subset in software. The thing is, I wouldn't say it the highest value work is the stuff that is true engineering. Actually implementing ideas is so much more value adding and difficult in my opinion. Execution and front lines gritty work is incredibly undervalued in every industry. So I prefer to go by developer because I take more pride in that part.