>> I've worked for like a dozen companies full-time. Most people don't know what they're doing. This is why I reflexively chafe when I see "Software|Data Engin

>> I've worked for like a dozen companies full-time. Most people don't know what they're doing. This is why I reflexively chafe when I see "Software|Data Engineering". I've never witnessed it in practice anywhere I've worked. Sure, embedded systems for a pacemaker/defense industry or something is probably proper engineering, or graphics programming where you're concerned with creating approximations of real light transport with a time budget per frame or whatever, but most of this over-architected junk involving putting strings in databases and sending clients 10MB of JS to render a list is the farthest thing from "engineering". A decade+ of inflated compensation really went to people's heads with these silly titles.