‘Product engineers’ vs ‘Software engineers’ in startups

Re:‘Product engineers’ vs ‘Software engineers’ in startups by philote on Monday August 19, 2019 @09:50AM (#20737714)

There's really no consensus on what some of these job titles mean. IMO if it has "engineer" in the title, you're doing more than just writing algorithms. I'd say that in your example, Company 1 was looking for a developer or programmer, whereas the other company was looking for a software engineer or product engineer.

Also, IMO the term "Product Engineer" does not denote that it has to be software-related at all. It could be someone who designs shoes or training seminars or whatever (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_engineering).

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Re:‘Product engineers’ vs ‘Software engineers’ in startups by scarface74 on Monday August 19, 2019 @10:01AM (#20737794)

Yet and still the stereotypical “software engineer” jobs at big tech companies focus on your ability to do leetCode style whiteboard coding and “reversing a binary tree”.

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Re:‘Product engineers’ vs ‘Software engineers’ in startups by cryptozeus on Monday August 19, 2019 @09:57AM (#20737768)

I think product engineer is used loosely within the software field same as product manager and product engineer. Not to be taken literally as per Wikipedia definition.

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