[Kalium]

"Complete software engineers", eh? Does that mean things required for modern software engineering, like complexity theory and relational calculus?

Or are they just skipping over this?

[hashberry]

It is also my pet peeve to call a Web Developer a Software Engineer. It's rather antiquated. Being a full-stack webdev is about knowing how all the different pieces fit together.

[Kalium]

I suspect they're relying on the confusion. A fully educated software engineer likely has a long and remunerative career ahead of them. A web developer may not, and one trained this way almost certainly lacks the breadth of skills required for said career as a software engineer.