A developer is one that just codes. An engineer is one that mocks up their feature, leads meetings to explain what they are going to do and debates with others about the proposed implementation, codes it, tests it thoroughly, then answers any questions about what they made months later and diagnoses issues that QA found. Maybe you’re just a code monkey, but my job is a lot more.
how so? my experience is that people tend to be impressed and intrigued and they hear I’m a software engineer
“software engineer” is such a stupid, shallow and arrogant description. I’m not an engineer and neither are you.
I’m a software developer, developer for short. All these fake “engineers” and “scientists” tend to be arrogant stuck up pricks.
Dude, you’re a code monkey. You’re not creating autocad graphs for Airbus, so get off your high horse.
A developer is one that just codes. An engineer is one that mocks up their feature, leads meetings to explain what they are going to do and debates with others about the proposed implementation, codes it, tests it thoroughly, then answers any questions about what they made months later and diagnoses issues that QA found. Maybe you’re just a code monkey, but my job is a lot more.
Software developer and software engineer are two distinct roles though. They are conflated all too often.
https://www.comptia.org/blog/software-engineer-vs.-software-developer
And I have a master’s in computer engineering, don’t get me started on what people think I do.
It’s the literal job description in many cases.