Well, plumbers frequently work as contractors to mechanical engineers. Its better to think of them as technicians, even though much of their training and for si

Well, plumbers frequently work as contractors to mechanical engineers. Its better to think of them as technicians, even though much of their training and for single family homes/etc the work is basically engineering on a smaller scale (computing gas flow vs pipe size over a run, etc). I think shat this article fails to note is this engineer light/technician class which tends to be the more hands on portion of "engineering" in the case of sw, they would be more light engineering more programmer less overall design. AKA your systems architect/principal enginner is probably doing "engineering" the software engineers are likely just programmers.