My Future as an SE?

Posted on January 21, 2004
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Why there should be a clear division between Professional Software Engineers and Professional Software Developers. And as a result SEs cannot be outsourced. Is this past, present, or future?

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2 Responses to “My Future as an SE?”

  1. John on January 23rd, 2004 23:05

    If you are very observant you will notice the people begging for food are far from skinny :-). I don’t think we will have problems finding jobs. Maybe coding jobs and tech support jobs will be sent to India but then again we did not become SE to be monkeys! :-)

  2. Mark on January 27th, 2004 17:14

    Of course they are far from skinny, it will take more that a few out sourced jobs to make the most obese country thinner.

    On your other point, that is why I believe there should be a clear divide between what SEs are trained to do, and what software developers (aka code monkeys) are useful for. I didn’t not go through 5 years of rigor to be equivalent to some joe with a few “in 21 days” books from Chapters and Internet access to Google the latest cool Perl hack.

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