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What's the difference between a Software Engineer and a Software Developer?

by xxpor 14y ago

AaronBBrown 14y ago
Apparently, $11,000
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f0untain 14y ago
Software Engineer uses C++ and Software Developer use Python. (joke)
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onedev 14y ago
I don't think there is a difference?
z92 14y ago
Engineers design. Developers build.
pnathan 14y ago
Tongue in cheek: how seriously they take themselves and negotiate.
guynamedloren 14y ago
only the title, which is why the breakdown is explicitly by "title" and not by "position"
AYBABTME 14y ago
What's the difference between an Electrical Engineer and an Electrical Engineering Technician?
- mjwalshe 14y ago
  The technician actually can remeber Ohms Law :-) You may laugh but a few years ago my Father was then the technical director of a small Electrical Engineering company (spun off from Eaton) told me that a junior engineer could not correctly calulate the thinkness of cables for a particular load.
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  - gouranga 14y ago
    That doesn't surprise me. Back when I was fresh out of uni and doing a junior EE position, I had a design engineer rate an electrolytic for the wrong voltage in a switch mode supply. When raised, the design engineer informed me that he didn't make mistakes and that I should go and build a prototype of the circuit without question. My condition was that only if he powered it up, which he did and promptly spend half an hour removing bits of capacitor fluff off everything... The result was eventually that we just bought COTS switch mode supplies and the design engineer removed head from butthole.
- biotech 14y ago
  A Bachelor's Degree.
bstewartnyc 14y ago
Good question: I've been one or the other for 19 years and I dont know what the difference is. When I tell non-tech people I am a "software developer" they think I'm some kind of "designer" rather than programmer - when I tell them I am a software "engineer" they think I pull cables for a living... Mostly I just tell them I am a programmer.
nvarsj 14y ago
It's a weird dichotomy. Some notable people (e.g. Bob Martin I believe) have pushed the usage of "Software Engineer" as an indication of professionalism. It's also a way to tell if someone works at a BigCo. "Software Engineer" seems to be the standard HR-compliant title.

What's the difference between a Software Engineer and a Software Developer?

by xxpor 14y ago

What's the difference between a Software Engineer and a Software Developer?

AaronBBrown 14y ago

Apparently, $11,000

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f0untain 14y ago

Software Engineer uses C++ and Software Developer use Python. (joke)

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onedev 14y ago

I don't think there is a difference?

z92 14y ago

Engineers design. Developers build.

pnathan 14y ago

Tongue in cheek: how seriously they take themselves and negotiate.

guynamedloren 14y ago

only the title, which is why the breakdown is explicitly by "title" and not by "position"

AYBABTME 14y ago

What's the difference between an Electrical Engineer and an Electrical Engineering Technician?

mjwalshe 14y ago
The technician actually can remeber Ohms Law :-) You may laugh but a few years ago my Father was then the technical director of a small Electrical Engineering company (spun off from Eaton) told me that a junior engineer could not correctly calulate the thinkness of cables for a particular load.
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- gouranga 14y ago
  That doesn't surprise me. Back when I was fresh out of uni and doing a junior EE position, I had a design engineer rate an electrolytic for the wrong voltage in a switch mode supply. When raised, the design engineer informed me that he didn't make mistakes and that I should go and build a prototype of the circuit without question. My condition was that only if he powered it up, which he did and promptly spend half an hour removing bits of capacitor fluff off everything... The result was eventually that we just bought COTS switch mode supplies and the design engineer removed head from butthole.
biotech 14y ago
A Bachelor's Degree.

bstewartnyc 14y ago

Good question: I've been one or the other for 19 years and I dont know what the difference is. When I tell non-tech people I am a "software developer" they think I'm some kind of "designer" rather than programmer - when I tell them I am a software "engineer" they think I pull cables for a living... Mostly I just tell them I am a programmer.

nvarsj 14y ago

It's a weird dichotomy. Some notable people (e.g. Bob Martin I believe) have pushed the usage of "Software Engineer" as an indication of professionalism. It's also a way to tell if someone works at a BigCo. "Software Engineer" seems to be the standard HR-compliant title.