Thoughts on Software Engineering

The Software Engineer and Software Developer titles have typically been used interchangeably in the industry. Most companies have either posted jobs for a Software Engineer and/or a Software Developer. As candidates, we have no choice in the title and would care less as we are more concern about the job description or details (and more than likely, the pay!). But should we really ignore the title? Does the title of the position really matter? That's the question I would like to explore more. According to the great Wikipedia, a Software Developer ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_developer ) is a person who develops software and gets involved in all phases of development. A Software Engineer ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineer ) is a person who applies the principles of software engineering to the design, development, maintenance, testing, and evaluation of the software and systems that make computers or anything containing software work. We can certainly fe...