Re:San Francisco Bubble
by vdnkh on Friday January 29, 2016 @12:22PM
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If you have an engineering degree from an accredited program, you're an engineer. If you don't you're not. The US is very lax with usage of the word but in other countries it's classed in the same way "Doctor" is.
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The funny thing being, most of the best "software engineers" are people without software engineering degrees. Because the practice has existed longer than the degree has.
That's not the reason. If that were the reason, death would swiftly make it so the best engineers are those with degrees.
The reason is because they learned out of innate curiosity and true passion. You always go farther with those.
However, you go even farther with curiosity, passion and a degree.
Re:San Francisco Bubble
by theandrewbailey on Friday January 29, 2016 @12:43PM
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I guess that the vast majority of "software engineers" of any kind (not just the best) don't have software engineering degrees. Maybe you were thinking computer science degrees?
I would even go so far as to say that you are not an engineer until you are a PE. This is coming from a "Software Engineer".