>Of course all of their programmers were "Software Engineers" but none had actual engineering certification. There's one more reason: "software engineer" is ca

>Of course all of their programmers were "Software Engineers" but none had actual engineering certification. There's one more reason: "software engineer" is categorized as engineering as far as the TN visa/NAFTA is concerned (so border-hopping to do that job is mostly trivial); "software developer" is not.