• theneverfox@pawb.social
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    7 months ago

    No, software developer isn’t a fallback term for software engineer, they have slightly different implications. They’re all very loosely defined so they’re almost interchangeable

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      7 months ago

      Really? Do you know of a company that has both developers and engineers where the distinction is not location?

      Where I work, we have both, but it’s purely a location thing. In the American offices we’re called “engineers”, yet my coworkers in Canada are called “developers” despite doing the exact same work. We don’t have “developers” in the US.

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        7 months ago

        It’s usually one or the other. It just doesn’t matter which one

        At my first job I was on a contract as a software engineer I with the job title junior developer, because that’s just how the titles mapped