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how so? my experience is that people tend to be impressed and intrigued and they hear I'm a software engineer
A developer is one that just codes. An engineer is one that mocks up their feature, leads meetings to explain what they are going to do and debates with others about the proposed implementation, codes it, tests it thoroughly, then answers any questions about what they made months later and diagnoses issues that QA found. Maybe you're just a code monkey, but my job is a lot more.
Yeah I'm an SW engineer and my job is 30% coding max. Equal part is requirements engineering (so translate sys reqs to sw reqs, ensure traceability and such), static code analysis and dev tests plus 10% change management. The last part is the most interesting part as this includes analysis of feasabilty, risk and impact assessment as well as proposing/reviewing sys reqs for new or existing features. Glad I'm not a sys dev though as they don't get to code at all.
Software developer and software engineer are two distinct roles though. They are conflated all too often.
https://www.comptia.org/blog/software-engineer-vs.-software-developer
And I have a master’s in computer engineering, don’t get me started on what people think I do.
It's the literal job description in many cases.
tf you talking about? the engineer engineers the solution and the developer develops it