I've never heard of anyone getting in trouble in the US for calling themselves a 'software engineer' but I'd be interested to see it happen!
This has only come up for me when trying to get a mortgage and, during the extensive autopsy of my finances, my constantly shifting titles became a problem. If I'd gone from 'developer' to 'engineer' to 'programmer' I had clearly changed professions thrice in five years like some wandering vagabond 🤣
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Very true! In fact in my home state of Oregon a board of civil engineers tried to prosecute someone for saying 'I am an engineer' in an email!
daily-times.com/story/opinion/2017...
I've never heard of anyone getting in trouble in the US for calling themselves a 'software engineer' but I'd be interested to see it happen!
This has only come up for me when trying to get a mortgage and, during the extensive autopsy of my finances, my constantly shifting titles became a problem. If I'd gone from 'developer' to 'engineer' to 'programmer' I had clearly changed professions thrice in five years like some wandering vagabond 🤣