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So, whom will you exactly call an engineer? A person with degree or a person with a specific set of skills? If skills, then can you enumerate few of them?

• alistairSH 6y ago
  Generally, any licensed engineer (PE or non-US equivalent) would be an engineer. That usually means a proof of skills via professional exam. Somebody could have an engineering degree, but not be a practicing engineer at all. Of course, there is no PE for software. So, within our industry, it's a lot more squishy. There's a bit of "I know it when I see it" here... If you're building complex systems with an eye for reliability and/or safety, you might be an engineer. If you're just building a business/consumer app, using infrastructure and tooling that somebody else built and maintains, you might not be an engineer. With all that said, as a hiring manager, I'm not going to be hung up on what title you held at a previous job, as long as you appear capable of doing the job now. And my career has mostly been on the "just a developer" side of the line - there's nothing wrong with that. I'm simply not building software that has massive negative repercussions if I get it wrong (beyond impact on my employer's bottom line).