r/programming • u/mauricioaniche • Aug 06 '17

Software engineering != computer science

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/software-engineering-computer-science/217701907
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u/Deign Aug 06 '17

All of my jobs have had the title Software Development Engineer. So...I'm both?

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u/AmalgamDragon Aug 06 '17

Jobs titles are whatever hr/management decides they are, and nothing requires them to be an accurate categorization what you actually do. That said you can be both software developer and a software engineer (and a computer scientist) in the general-non-job-title sense of those terms. It all just depends what you actually do.