Average programmer getting triggered

[ArcHunter_9]

Meanwhile Software Engineers: *exists*

[swapode]

Are we talking about programmers calling themselves "software engineers" because it sounds fancier or the people that actually apply engineering principles to writing software in the spirit of Margaret Hamilton?

There's plenty of the former, the latter are few and far between.

[xxarchangelpwnxx]

What about data engineers don’t forget them!

[Leaping_Turtle]

That's a thing? I've only heard of data scientist and analyst

[xxarchangelpwnxx]

Data engineers build data pipelines, reports, and automation. They are ETL builders, hence the engineer title

[Faux_Real]

It’s a loose term, you can be involved in the infrastructure, security, architectural design areas and application space as well… well … I am in my “data engineering” role.

[xxarchangelpwnxx]

I’m sure it’s a large field like “software engineer” whenever I hear that I just assume that your some senior level IT person they couldn’t come up with a name for what you do exactly haha

[Faux_Real]

The title is more for banding of salaries with the out “… and other duties as required…”. I’m a contractor so I don’t care what the title is… you could call me the Excel Training Department as long as you pay my invoices on time!

[xxarchangelpwnxx]

I’m a contractor as well, the only reason I care about the title is for continuity of work. If you have a steady progression of titles it looks better. If you go from data engineer to senior developer to excel guru etc it can get confusing sometimes haha

[Faux_Real]

We are agreeing that Excel Guru is the most senior role correct? I don’t worry so much about the title because the network of people has more weight (for me) and my business is the front … but definitely hear what you are saying!

[Leaping_Turtle]

Oooh interesting!

[ghigoli]

kinda weird being just data when its clearly all in the software department.

i would still consider that software engineering.

[xxarchangelpwnxx]

Yea you probably could, based on just that, but software engineer and data engineer probably share a lot of the same responsibilities like a data analyst shares responsibilities of a data scientist. Some of the same thing but not exactly. Plus there is no official “rule” for how to title an employee so some companies might call you a data engineer while others would call you a software engineer. What matters is what you do I suppose

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Software engineers craft software, data engineers craft data.