I'm curious what sort of work you did since you mention a plant. Some work in both software and traditional engineering is going to be held to higher standards,

I'm curious what sort of work you did since you mention a plant. Some work in both software and traditional engineering is going to be held to higher standards, so I think it can be hard to compare. For example, another commenter mentioned aviation. I would fully expect that industry to be more rigorous with both their software and physical engineering. > since you cannot fix a 400 million dollar assembly as easily as code Have you never seen these projects go wrong? I find that people often imply that things don't break and projects don't fail in traditional engineering when that actually seems to happen more often than most people would think. For example, a ~$30M council parking building project in my city had to be demolished midway through the project because they messed up the design and it was structurally unsound.