Maybe it's just cause I fucking hate the elitism in the engineering college and every engineer I've met, but why do devs want to be called engineers? I'm a programmer, a developer, a coder, fucking anything rather than an engineer.
I associate that word with know-nothing "book-smart" fuckwads who think they're better than everyone, even someone doing the same thing without their useless degree.

A software engineer is not the same thing as a software developer

@penguin how? How do their duties differ?

There's typically a stigma with employers where they like to see an engineering degree. For example; two friends of mine applied for the same job which was for software development, one a computer engineer, the other a computer scientist. At our school computer engineers don't learn as much programming as computer scientist. The engineer got the interview and not the CS major
So having a software engineering degree is a ++

@iam13islucky they architect the system, define processes, create technical specifications, implement advanced refactoring vs programmers who write the code.
Note that most software engineers are also developers. The reverse isn't always true.

Nice to know. Im trying to make a decision on what career route to take.

@penguin I see you too went to the software engineering stack exchange result on Google. I still don't think there is really as much a difference as it is just a different title for a senior developer with experience enough to plan the project, and that's if it gets used right.

You can put lipstick on a pig all you want, but it still digs up grubs like the rest

I am an engineer and a coder too. I'd say not every engineer behaves that way, but way many coders like to be called software engineers.

I am an electrical engineer, but I revere other people's careers because I know I'd suck at anything other than what I have spent 5 years learning.