• median_user@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    This is not true at all, except maybe in very specific places (e.g. some jurisdictions do not allow you to call yourself an engineer without a specific qualification).

    Software Engineer and Developer are essentially interchangeable terms and largely a matter of taste.

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      1 year ago

      Those terms really aren’t interchangeable over here. At all. (NL). For the reasons I listed above. “Developer” (or “ontwikkelaar” in Dutch) is monkey get instructions, monkey do things. A software engineer would get a request for something, research and figure out the solution, then build it. Source: I’m a software engineer.

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        1 year ago

        It may well be different in NL, I’m not going to argue with that. But ‘ontwikkelaar’ is literally a different word in a different language - no surprise that it may have different semantics to the closest word in English!

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          It’s a literal translation, and most vacancies are posted in English anyway.