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0 pointsWaterluvian3y ago0 comments

Indeed. I worked at a Canadian company that got a legal nastygram from the professional association saying to stop calling us engineers.

Then I started working for an American company that was like shrug no laws against that.

I just can’t say professional engineer.

The whole thing makes a ton of sense when we’re building bridges or airplane safety rated computer systems, but not so much when building websites or whatnot.

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eddsh19943y ago

I work on critical software and have the 'engineer' label, but do have a nagging feeling it's less structured than 'normal' engineering disciplines. I'm taking a part-time BEng to see if that's the case though!

Sephr3y ago

You can definitely call yourself a professional software engineer in the US.

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