I just lost my job as a civil engineer and I’ve been trying to find resources, forums, staffing agencies, etc to help land me a job and all of what’s out there online talks about faang, leetcode, programming bullshit, etc. Call yourselves Computer scientists, programmers, hogs, i don’t care, please for the love just stop dominating all the ‘engineering’ discourse.
Most real engineers don't have a PE either, lol. I know engineers nearing retirement who never got their PE.
I mean, yeah, but somebody on the job has to have taken it, right? That was my understanding.
Sure, but also you wouldn't say the overwhelming majority of engineering work isn't real engineering work because it was done by people who didn't need to get the PE designation.
A lot of shops have one engineer with a stamp and dozens of draftsmen that are just paid draftsman wages for permit and design drawings.
Where I'm at, the resident PE literally just puts a stamp on our work.