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Job titles (in my experience) have been 100% worthless to my day to day. I go in and do what's necessary based on what skills I have. Sometimes that means writi
by CodeCube 13y ago
Job titles (in my experience) have been 100% worthless to my day to day. I go in and do what's necessary based on what skills I have. Sometimes that means writing code for the web (html, css, etc.), sometimes that means writing a windows service to run a long running or recurring process, sometimes it means writing stored procedures, and sometimes it means writing a process to automate deployments.
It's always upset me a little that I've had to communicate with people using this narrow definition of what I do from day to day. And so, I prefer the title Software Engineer because it's not specific to mobile, web, devops, etc.
- jarek 13y agoSome people who can do a wider range of tasks are useful, and at some companies necessary, but division of labour was set up for a reason.
- CodeCube 13y agoYeah, that's true. I really enjoy working with a) designers, and b) good IT/devops people. I definitely wasn't trying to suggest there shouldn't be specialization ... but it is frustrating when you run up against no-my-job kind of people.