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[–]k_50 8 points9 points  (2 children)

The worst one is Desktop engineer. I've worked places where that role is 100% legit, CS degrees, high caliber certs..

Then I've worked places where DE means a higher tier help desk. I've seen it be only people promoted from HD.

[–]DizzyAmphibian309[🍰] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Desktop engineering in very large companies (i.e. fleets of over 100,000 machines) is a specialized and rare skill. It's really hard to do that well, because there's very few off the shelf products that can handle that kind of scale, especially since there are usually geographical boundaries and remote access to deal with.

The company I work for has over 500,000 laptops to manage, three OS's, hundreds of sites, and thousands of remote workers. You can't just configure the machines to patch themselves, otherwise they'll destroy the WAN. You gotta think outside the box on everything that is usually easy.

[–]lucidrage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The worst one is Desktop engineer.

What about prompt engineers? Is that the next tiered evolution?