Where I come from all our CAD technician had to be rebranded as some sort of senior lead engineers or whatever because it's the only way to do business with the

Where I come from all our CAD technician had to be rebranded as some sort of senior lead engineers or whatever because it's the only way to do business with the Chinese. Apparently they take it as an insult if you try to sell them mere technicians. So in the 90s when globalization happened all our corporations had to recalibrate all their employee titles accordingly. Wikipedia seem to say that there's a similar story with the "software engineer" title. Software developers were not taken seriously so Margaret Hamilton rebranded them as engineers. I wouldn't mind being just a programmer but my boss thought Software Engineer sounds better. Credential inflation. I don't really care either way. It's all just marketing to me.