[oblio]

1. You don't need an engineering degree for software development in many, many cases. So I don't understand your argument.

2. Engineers design stuff :-) I'm not sure what you mean with "product work". Also, engineers debug and fix stuff :-)

[zeroonetwothree]

Product work = figuring out what to build

[oblio]

Product work is a fractal and you don't want "product people" designing things past the 2nd or 3rd fractal step, in my experience.