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Ask Slashdot: Developer Or Software Engineer? Can It Influence Your Work?

Posted by Soulskill on from the it's-harder-to-chant-software-engineer dept.

ctrahey writes "Many of us disregard the impact of our titles on various aspects of our lives, both professional and otherwise. Perhaps it's appropriate to ask two questions about the difference between a couple titles familiar to the Slashdot community: Developer vs Software Engineer. What are the factors to consider in the appropriate use of the titles? And (more interesting to me), what influence might the use of these titles have on the written code? Have you observed a difference in attitudes, priorities, or outlooks in talent as a corollary to their titles?"

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  1. Gets more babes by DuncanE · · Score: 4, Funny

    Easy.... Use software engineer. It sounds richer so gets more babes ;)

  2. Programmer, Motherfucker! by mhh91 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do you speak it?

  3. Re:What about programmer? by Arancaytar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Programmers programmers programmers PROGRAMMERS PROGRAMMERS PROGRAMMERS. *chairtoss*

    Nah, doesn't flow off the tongue.

    I'll stick with "developers".

  4. Wizard by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You could just call yourself "wizard". Like 90% of the population treats either title differently than "wizard" anyway.

  5. What about "trendy douche" ? by Gothmolly · · Score: 5, Funny

    What if you just ramble on about .Net and quibble over which IDE is better, all the while saying words like "Scrum" and "Agile"?

    Sure you'll get a job, but you won't ever actually produce anything.

    --
    I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
  6. Re:Are you an engineer? by fm6 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Even if you have the hat?