"There's a difference between software engineering and computer science. " Yes. THIS in spades. There is a gulf between programming and software engineering.

"There's a difference between software engineering and computer science. " Yes. THIS in spades. There is a gulf between programming and software engineering. Good programmers are a dime-a-dozen; some of them come from boot camps, some are auto-didactic. Good software engineers are very difficult to find. I think because programming and software engineering are so commonly conflated.