[jpochtar]

Is a lawyer an engineer?

Hillel asks engineer-turned-swes whether they think swe is engineering. He should compare that rate to the rate lawyer-turned-swes think swe is similar to law.

Without comparing rates, you might include swe in engineering by an overbroad definition of engineering.

Also if you think engineering is whether the state has granted you a license: 1) cope, 2) since lawyers need a JD, they’re definitely engineers right?

Personally, I think we appropriated the term eng in the mid-90s to up the social status of programmers. Nothing wrong with that, but FAANG SWEs make substantially more than trad engineers now, so we should aim higher.