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This is an interesting topic. "Engineer" is a word that people respect. "Developer" is a meh word. You'd rather want to be Software Engineer as opposed to Software Developer even though some companies call you former and the other latter despite your responsibilities and everything being exactly the same.

Common people would respect classical engineers more because they can see that they are building something tangible. And it seems many definitions for engineers everywhere seem to exclude "software", something like "a person who designs, builds, or maintains engines, machines, or structures.".

Fun story is, when I was doing medical checkup for my work the old lady saw I was marked as "software engineer", and she didn't like it and asked me for an alternative.