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Originally Posted by Wormius
I am going to necro-bump this old thread, as the question of use of the title, “engineer” has popped up with some tech companies being upset over not being able advertise positions for “software engineers”. Personally, I don’t see what their contention is or why they can’t recruit if they use a different job title, like “software developer”. If the candidate is a P.Eng or something, maybe they could change the job title to reflect that. It’s probably even in their best interest to distance themselves from being an engineering company due to permit to practice fees and rigmarole.
I am kind of two mindsets here; I don’t care if software developers are called software engineers, but I don’t know why a company wouldn’t just avoid the issue and use software developer as the job title.
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We use developer and I’m Sr. Manager, Engineering. But, engineer is a title, and jobs shouldn’t be posted as engineer unless you’re specifically filling it with a P.Eng. I’ve complained to my own company in the past for using engineer for non-engineers.
I let my P.Eng lapse when I moved to BC. I’d been non practicing for years. Didn’t want to bother. I no longer refer to myself as an engineer, despite having an electrical engineering degree and previously had the title.