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I've worked with multiple german companies that declared their programmers as engineers, "Jr/Mid/Sr Software Engineer" or the more focused "Frontend/Backend/Ful
by sally_glance 4y ago
I've worked with multiple german companies that declared their programmers as engineers, "Jr/Mid/Sr Software Engineer" or the more focused "Frontend/Backend/Fullstack Software Engineer". Maybe that's more of a thing in agencies? But then I think SAP calls them "Software Engineer" as well.
- flohofwoe 4y agoI suspect this is mainly because the whole hiring process has been internationalized, and 'Software Engineer' seems to have become the common international phrase for 'anybody who has the ability to author software'. 15 years ago it would have been "Softwareentwickler" or "Programmierer" (optionally with the requirement of a degree in computer science, which - funny enough - also isn't excplicitely called a 'science' in Germany, but simply 'informatics'), even though the job description would be exactly the same as today.
- sally_glance 4y agoI wouldn't put too much thought into the naming, "informatics" in Germany is still a Bachelor/Master of Science and on the other hand at Stanford they have a "Mathematical and Computational Engineering" programme.