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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How come they don't count? They're figuring out how the machines should work, for money. That's engineering, right? (I'm an American mechanical engineer)

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

In Canada you have to be qualified and licensed to call yourself an engineer. There are people who can use the title "software engineer", but it's not the majority of people working in development.