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.
Eh, I don't get this post...
Long time ago, at our university, you had to go through 2 years of electrical engineering, semiconductors, even quantum mechanics of materials first. Then you could specialise in a field, from industrial electronics and power plant engineering, to software engineering. Software engineering meant a lot. From a lot of theory and math (e.g. AI), to going into very low level details of how hardware components work and this is vastly different then the usual programmers who write various "apps" today. It was a true engineering course.
That being said, most of us still ended up doing run-of-the-mill app development, but our "developing" country just didn't offer any other opportunities. In fact, few of them do. E.g. we learned microcode, which I guess you wouldn't actually do, unless you worked for one of the very few CPU manufacturers and very few actually managed to get there.
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