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After how many years of experience doing engineering work do you get to call yourself an engineer as a dropout? I ask because I'm pretty sure that after 15 yea
by Swizec 5y ago
After how many years of experience doing engineering work do you get to call yourself an engineer as a dropout?
I ask because I'm pretty sure that after 15 years of on-the-job experience on top of 10 years of coding-for-fun experience I have more engineering skills than any fresh grad you can point at.
- epolanski 5y agoYou don't, you didn't graduate. Nobody cares how skilled someone is, in many countries, e.g. Italy where I live it would be illegal to give such a title to someone who isn't graduated in engineering. John Carmack who is one of the most brilliant minds we had in the last decades didn't graduate, he isn't an engineer. Only in software there is this ridiculous trend to rebrand as engineers. A car mechanic follows better engineering practices than every single dev I met, from data analysis to problem solving, no one would call him an engineer.
- Warwolt 5y agoThis seems incredibly political. How would you meaningfully define "engineering degree" without first defining what "engineering" is? And how would you define engineering in such a way that it excludes people learning it outside of some preferred institution? Of course you can learn engineering at the job.