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by mikewarot 696 days ago
The HN crowd seems to be quite willing to hand out the title "Engineer" to programmers, and quite touchy about it as well.

I meant Professional STATE LICENSED Engineer.

Anyone can be a programmer (aka "engineer"), and some are even good at it. ;-)
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amonith 695 days ago
Fun fact from Poland: Here a real "Professional State Licensed Engineer" degree (anything outside IT) is absolutely NOT worth it because the market for most jobs is local. Only Software "Enginneering" (with or without degree, doesn't matter) is.

I do have a masters degree in computer science (software engineering specialization) and since I'm working as a contractor from the start nobody ever saw it or wanted to see it.

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