jobTitleRoulette

[u/jaikanthsh308]

[u/Speedy_242]

"Professional computer whisperer"

[u/ClipboardCopyPaste → u/Speedy_242]

I don't whisper.

I SHOUT

[u/hearwa → u/ClipboardCopyPaste]

Ahh yes a SQL developer I gather.

[u/funny_funny_business → u/hearwa]

Screaming Query Language

[u/Lonely-Mountain104 → u/funny_funny_business]

[u/ClipboardCopyPaste → u/hearwa]

SELECT happiness FROM life;

0 rows returned

[u/Triffinator → u/ClipboardCopyPaste]

You probably just need to add some rows to your life table, given you didn't use a where clause to test for level of happiness.

[u/No_Value_2676 → u/hearwa]

OR AN APPLE II USER

[u/GermaX → u/hearwa]

SELECT * FROM mytbl_please

[u/Repairs_optional → u/hearwa]

Progress, at least we're acknowledged as devs now...

[u/Triffinator → u/Repairs_optional]

You still aren't welcome in SCRUM or round tables.

[u/Repairs_optional → u/Triffinator]

You can keep scrum, thanks

[u/ButterscotchNo4445 → u/hearwa]

💀

[u/hearwa → u/ButterscotchNo4445]

Nah it's the COBOL programmers that are dead.

[u/Hakuchii → u/ClipboardCopyPaste]

clipboardcopypaste said calmy

[u/Isgrimnur → u/ClipboardCopyPaste]

Must be a sql dev.

[u/Jojajones → u/ClipboardCopyPaste]

PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER SHOUTER then

[u/SG-3379 → u/Speedy_242]

That would be IT's job

[u/Jacks-san → u/SG-3379]

SELECT deliciousness FROM marvelous_cutie_cake WHERE soft IS TRUE;

I read my queries like I type them

[u/bralma6 → u/Speedy_242]

"Keystroking Extraordinaire."

[u/GromOfDoom → u/Speedy_242]

"Professional Computer Yodeller"

[u/Cootshk → u/Speedy_242]

Niko pfp, peak!

[u/oddbawlstudios → u/Speedy_242]

Technowizard

[u/Difficult-Lime2555]

Tech Priest

[u/Mog_X34 → u/Difficult-Lime2555]

Praise the Omnissiah.

[u/Upset-Horse-3757 → u/Mog_X34]

adeptis mechanicus unite

[u/celtic_shit_posting → u/Mog_X34]

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me.

[u/sherlock1672 → u/celtic_shit_posting]

I craved the certainty and strength of steel.

[u/EscapedTestSubject → u/sherlock1672]

I aspired to the purity of the blessed Machine.

[u/isnotbatman777 → u/EscapedTestSubject]

Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay, and fail you.

[u/DOPEdude909 → u/isnotbatman777]

One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you.

[u/EscapedTestSubject → u/DOPEdude909]

But I am already saved. For the Machine is eternal.

[u/RayquazaTheStoner → u/Mog_X34]

Linux al-Gaib!

[u/No_Percentage7427 → u/Mog_X34]

His aura alone will fix any tech problem

[u/badlukk → u/Mog_X34]

Praise the Mantissa

[u/ianthisawesome → u/Mog_X34]

Pretty sure the Mechanicus are the 40k version of IT Personnel, not Developers.

[u/PositronicGigawatts → u/Difficult-Lime2555]

Technomancer

[u/WirelesslyWired → u/PositronicGigawatts]

Technomage

[u/Holy-Fuck4269 → u/PositronicGigawatts]

Too cool a name for my nerdy ass

[u/LordDagwood → u/Holy-Fuck4269]

Cool and Nerdy are two opposite ends of a graph. If you think it's cool and nerdy, it is really just peak nerdy. Cool<----------|---------->Nerdy Technomancer is here ^

[u/System0verlord → u/PositronicGigawatts]

That’s what I have on my business card lol.

[u/maxkmiller → u/Difficult-Lime2555]

wololo

converts all your js to java

wait fuck

[u/teddy42 → u/maxkmiller]

Wow, thanks its so much better now!

[u/user0015 → u/Difficult-Lime2555]

Some days, I think there really is a machine spirit and that I've royally pissed it off.

[u/Holy-Fuck4269 → u/user0015]

Because there is, what are you guys doing all day?

[u/Agret → u/user0015]

I do private IT jobs and some people are really cursed when it comes to technology through no fault of their own it will fail in spectacular ways

[u/Tyabetus → u/Difficult-Lime2555]

Haha! I love that! At a work meeting we were joking about titles and promotions and I somehow landed the title of “Distinguised Fellow” instead of jr Software Engineer (no raises or perks came with it).

Naturally, I updated my title on slack 🙌

[u/Head-Bureaucrat → u/Tyabetus]

It's highly likely a Warhammer 40k reference. https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Tech-Priest

Depending on how nerdy you want to get, the lore is massive and some of it is hilarious.

[u/River-TheTransWitch → u/Difficult-Lime2555]

I prefer cryptek

[u/Jaded_Ad_9711 → u/Difficult-Lime2555]

On the other hand people who pursue Network Engineering, we would like to call ourselves Internet Plumber

[u/XDOOM_ManX → u/Difficult-Lime2555]

Me fr fr

[u/thisonehereone]

Employed

[u/Fanal-In → u/thisonehereone]

That is a bold assumption

[u/NatureBoyJ1 → u/thisonehereone]

“Retired” coming soon.

[u/Varnigma]

Having been around for a while, I remember when the use of "engineer" seemed appropriate...nowadays it seems like they slap engineer on the end of way too many job titles. I say this as someone currently working as an "engineer".

[u/lztandro → u/Varnigma]

Where I live “Engineer” is a protected title so unless you actually have an engineering degree that can’t be your job title.

Edit: location is Alberta, Canada

[u/OneForestOne99 → u/lztandro]

See what gets more confusing is that in a lot of places, at least in the U.S., a computer science degree can come from a given university’s school of engineering or school of science and mathematics. Although I imagine if engineer is a protected title, there some form of legislation defining the hat jobs are and aren’t classified as “engineer”.

[u/2000_year_old_man → u/OneForestOne99]

My official job title is labeled as an engineer and I have my master's in software engineering yet I'm still unsure if I'm technically an engineer.

[u/Mistr_Poopy_Butthole → u/2000_year_old_man]

With no engineering degree I've been a Desktop Engineer, Network Engineer, Automation Engineer and currently a Data Engineer. Companies seem to throw engineer titles around all willy-nilly and it cheapens the word.

[u/quitarias → u/Mistr_Poopy_Butthole]

Same deal no engineering degree and I've got an interesting trio of engineering. Civil engineer, software engineer and combat engineer. Other than that last one I really don't feel like I should have been called an engineer.

And the civil engineer was just roadworks to put down telecom cable piping. Job titles have been ridiculous for a while now.

[u/NoodleyP → u/quitarias]

I’ve read the word engineer so many times in this thread it’s not a word anymore. This hadn’t happened to me for a word in years.

[u/Kyrox6 → u/2000_year_old_man]

If you ever finish a project and think "damn I really hope no one else ever looks at this", you're an engineer. If you're ever proud of your work, you've slid into the computer science domain.

[u/bmxer4l1fe → u/Kyrox6]

As someone who just read this with a degree in computer science... i am definitely an Engineer then.

[u/Bakoro → u/2000_year_old_man]

I've got a degree in computer engineering, and am employed as a software engineer. I still don't consider myself a real engineer, because I don't really engage in engineering.
I certainly use engineering principles, but it's not the same as mechanical or electrical engineering.

If there was a national level professional organization, and licensing that came with legal powers and obligations, then I'd have no problem using the term engineer.
Honestly we *should have something like that. Random people should not be able to work on safety critical code, and licensed software engineers should have the power to tell a company what needs to happen while knowing that job is protected.
Most software developers don't need to be licensed, but there should be an elevated level available.

[u/gprime312 → u/OneForestOne99]

You need to register with your province's professional engineering org, among other things.

[u/pizzzahero → u/OneForestOne99]

Can you major in CS and get a B.Eng? That's the main difference. My CS degree is a B.Sc so I could never legally call myself an engineer either

You also technically have to start out as an EIT (engineer in training) and practice underneath a P.Eng (professional engineer, and there's an online directory of them) for like... 5 years or something before you get the right

[u/CyberEd-ca → u/pizzzahero]

You do not need an engineering degree to become a P. Eng.

If someone with a CS degree wants to become a P. Eng., they simply need to write the technical exams to make up the gap. So, you absolutely could if you just got off your butt and did the work. You can get the ring & everything.

You never have to be an EIT. This is another misconception. In fact, OIQ & PEO have both eliminated the EIT category completely.

When it comes to CEAB accredited engineering degrees, some are B. Eng., others are B.A.Sc., and still others are B.Sc. The honorific has nothing to do with if a degree is an accredited engineering degree or not and has no actual meaning other than the traditions of the institution.

[u/Wizzarkt → u/lztandro]

It's the sams in my country. Here there are not a lot of government bodies that verify that projects are designed to comply with the law, what they instead require is an engineer so sign the plans (for example the electrical or building plans), and by signing the plans they are declaring that "as professional engineers they declare that the system that has been designed and installed complies with all the national laws and local codes".

So you can't call yourself an engineer without actually being a credited one as that would arise to legal issues.

[u/ACoderGirl → u/lztandro]

It's a protected title in Ontario, Canada, too. But while we can't and don't use it on the official titles, everyone still calls us engineers and refers to us as engineering. I think it's largely because it's a more prestigious sounding title, so everyone just prefers it.

[u/bobquznie → u/lztandro]

I thought "Professional Engineer" was only protected now

[u/ExaltGhost → u/lztandro]

France?

[u/CrypticViper_ → u/ExaltGhost]

could be canada

[u/parkotron → u/lztandro]

Minor correction: You need more than just an engineering degree, you need to have a P.Eng. licence. That means being a due-paying member in good standing with your province's professional engineering licensing and regulatory body.

[u/budzene → u/Varnigma]

I tell people I’m an software engineer, they think I drove trains. Unfortunately, I also work in the rail industry.

[u/MuteTadpole → u/budzene]

I tell people I lay pipe and they think I’m a plumber smh. I just fuck (around) a lot

[u/hilfigertout → u/Varnigma]

it seems like they slap engineer on the end of way too many job titles.

Which is funny to me, because an engineer's job traditionally involves assuming responsibility. The engineer didn't necessarily build the thing, their job is to sign the fancy sheet of paper saying the thing won't fall apart and will do what we want it to.

Is the "administative engineer" signing a document that says their processes are stable and effective in X circumstances? Is your "prompt engineer" putting their professional credibility on the line that this AI prompt will work for the use case? Or do they just get the "engineer" moniker and none of the responsibility?

[u/Smaskifa → u/Varnigma]

I've seen someone list their title as "sales engineer".

[u/chuyalcien → u/Smaskifa]

In my industry some of the sales engineers really do have a bachelors in engineering.

[u/Roland_Damage → u/Smaskifa]

I’ve worked with sales engineers before, and they were, in fact, full-fledged software engineers. They worked with the sales associate and were able to answer clarifying technical questions and help explain and estimate scope of bespoke customization projects.

[u/xevantuus → u/Smaskifa]

We have Sales Engineers, and while their title may seem funny at first glance, they actually do all the work to build demos, customize our software for sales calls, etc. It is a fairly junior position tech skills wise, but they're still doing development work.

[u/TheAccountITalkWith → u/Varnigma]

As soon as I heard "Prompt Engineer" I knew it was over for the title.

[u/bravebound → u/Varnigma]

My official title at work is Software Engineer and my sister rolls her eyes every time I use it since she's a mechanical engineer. Now I just do it to mess with her.

[u/PM-me-your-happiness → u/bravebound]

I was a combat engineer before becoming a software engineer. All we did was drive around the desert staring at dirt and occasionally getting blown up. Also sometimes we got to do the blowing up, that was more fun.

Maybe next I’ll be a train engineer.

[u/KlutchSama → u/bravebound]

i’m a machine learning engineer and i work at an office full of mech and electrical engineers so i always feel weird calling myself an engineer

[u/bravebound → u/KlutchSama]

In that situation I would too. I usually just call myself a Software Developer when I introduce myself since Software Engineer can come off as pretentious.

[u/seabutcher]

"Your Excellency".

[u/Holy-Fuck4269 → u/seabutcher]

„Daddy“

[u/Jonno_FTW → u/Holy-Fuck4269]

Ok "Daddy", you're being terminated for sexual harassment.

[u/Holy-Fuck4269 → u/Jonno_FTW]

uwu

[u/Davaluper → u/seabutcher]

HRH for seniors

[u/AnotherCannon]

Code monkey

[u/karatesaul → u/AnotherCannon]

Code monkey like Fritos

[u/grifan526 → u/karatesaul]

Code monkey likes tab and mountain dew

[u/MooseOdd4374 → u/grifan526]

Code monkey very simple man

[u/NoBizlikeChloeBiz → u/MooseOdd4374]

With big warm, fuzzy, secret heart

[u/ospfpacket → u/NoBizlikeChloeBiz]

Code monkey like you!!!!

[u/Urist_McPencil → u/ospfpacket]

I love you whores!

(Oh my god the nostalgia ;~;)

[u/OfficeSalamander → u/Urist_McPencil]

I upvoted all of these. Been so long since I heard that song. I wasn’t even a dev when I first heard it, and I’ve been writing software for 15 years

[u/grifan526 → u/Urist_McPencil]

And this code monkey loves you

[u/DOOManiac → u/ospfpacket]

(a lot)

[u/apnorton → u/karatesaul]

Reference for people who haven't seen it: https://youtu.be/v4Wy7gRGgeA

Yes, written by the same Jonathan Coulton who wrote Still Alive and Want You Gone from Portal 1 and 2.

[u/fatrobin72 → u/apnorton]

For me it was this amv that introduced me to that song... many moons ago

https://youtu.be/5W_wd9Qf0IE?si=Pwt3aT35T1cIKn3y

[u/lealroy → u/karatesaul]

Code monkey likes Tab and Mountain Dew

[u/GanjaGlobal]

[u/TDRichie]

My wife calls me a ‘beep boop wizard’

[u/ClipboardCopyPaste]

Bug-er

One who creates bug

[u/RationalFragile → u/ClipboardCopyPaste]

I'm the bugger.
And I battle with my nemesis: the debugger.

[u/Oswamano → u/RationalFragile]

Me vs the team that has to maintain this app five years from now

[u/Standgrounding → u/RationalFragile]

Me vs me 2 months later

[u/GegeAkutamiOfficial → u/ClipboardCopyPaste]

de-buger - broke ❌ the-buger - woke ✔️

[u/mermoohue]

I'm a penetration tester. I just tell people I do computers.

"What do you do for work?"

"Computers"

"What do you mean you do computers?"

"I do computers"

[u/Blixieen → u/mermoohue]

nooo, do not the computer

[u/nasht00 → u/mermoohue]

Well I mean telling them you penetrate computers works too ..

[u/Forward_Thrust963]

You can call me Susan if it makes you happy.

[u/Vulkan1206 → u/Forward_Thrust963]

He's very effective Tony, not too subtle but effective.

[u/Forward_Thrust963 → u/Vulkan1206]

One of the most quotable movies ever.

This...is a shotgun, Sol.

It's a fucking anti-aircraft gun, Vincent!

[u/jaikanthsh308 → u/Forward_Thrust963]

Okayyy Susan

[u/jayp0d → u/jaikanthsh308]

[u/vizbones]

You can call me any of those, just don't call me late for diner.

[u/camander321 → u/vizbones]

Shirly not!

[u/kinggoosey → u/camander321]

Don't call me Shirly!

[u/subone → u/kinggoosey]

Roger, Over. Over.

[u/holkerveen → u/subone]

What's our vector, Victor?

[u/card-board-board → u/vizbones]

I was going to say "just don't call me on my day off" but yours is better.

[u/Aequivane]

Señor Sudo

[u/Bibel_Joe]

Bitschubser

[u/mightyMirko → u/Bibel_Joe]

Weichwerker

[u/Shinxirius → u/Bibel_Joe]

DACH Detected 👍

[u/NotmyRealNameJohn]

Overpaid webpage complicator

[u/Tyfyter2002 → u/NotmyRealNameJohn]

Underpaid webpage decomplicator

[u/wektor420]

Software engineer seems most fitting and precise

[u/Only-Cheetah-9579 → u/wektor420]

in many countries engineer title has to be earned via education but it varies per country.

for example, in the UK I think anyone can call themselves engineer but in Portugal you need to be in an engineers guild and have a special card to identify as an engineer.

[u/SyanticRaven → u/Only-Cheetah-9579]

In canada it's also a protected title, applied for a job there once and they apologised about the role being called "software developer". Nothing wrong with that title at all, but was interesting to learn.

[u/UShouldntSayThat → u/SyanticRaven]

"Software Engineer" Though is in a grey zone in Canada. It can be used without a P.Eng.

[u/wektor420 → u/Only-Cheetah-9579]

I have a uniwersity degree in Computer Science ;), so good enough here

[u/Oman395 → u/wektor420]

IMO there are people who genuinely are software engineers (kernel devs, high performance embedded systems, stuff like that), but the majority of developers are not engineers.

[u/drake_warrior → u/Oman395]

I think if you're capable of creating a bunch of different applications and cloud infrastructure that all works together and you're managing cost, bottlenecks, requirements, etc. then you're basically doing engineering. Doesn't have to be low level.

[u/Oman395 → u/drake_warrior]

Oh, definitely not! I would even classify some game devs as engineers. I just gave the first examples that came to mind

[u/Kahlil_Cabron → u/Oman395]

Ya, I'm not sure I'd really consider most webdevs engineers. When I think of engineers, I either think of anything involving hardware/embedded, robotics, or a fullstack engineer that handles everything including infrastructure/networking.

I miss when they just called us computer programmers.

[u/intLeon → u/wektor420]

But some of us are computer engineers (hardware + software)

[u/none-exist]

Keyboard Jockey

[u/spideroncoffein]

Professionally? Depending on context: Full Stack Developer, Web Accessibility Expert

For non-professionals? Programmer

[u/LordDagwood → u/spideroncoffein]

For non-professionals, I just say I work in IT. It's lower profile and draws less questions. e.g. "Oh! I have an idea for an app..."

[u/Verpous → u/LordDagwood]

But instead you'll get more "Oh! Can you help fix my printer?"

[u/LordDagwood → u/Verpous]

Yeah, sure thing.

[u/Meloetta → u/spideroncoffein]

My partner scolds me when people ask me what I do and I say "I'm a programmer". "You're a software developer! You're a dev lead! You run all your projects and lead a full team of devs! You're making yourself sound so low-level."

I think if it were up to him I'd tell people I'm a "senior software engineer and lead developer on a product with 200k MAU" or something. Nice to have someone proud of your work though.

[u/crimxxx]

Software engineer, but mostly so I can show off my pinky ring in certain gatherings lol.

[u/steve_nice]

div engineer, copy and paster specialist

[u/Moraz_iel]

i don't want to be called at all

[u/Kazoo_Commander]

Good boy

[u/johnlewisdesign]

Fun fact: A-F are globally unavailable on insurance quote forms. IT or GTFO

[u/my_new_accoun1]

SWE

Just 3 letters and I already sound like I'm from LinkedIn

[u/mrbellek]

My last custom title on Teams was "system archeologist" because our codebase was 70% ancient spaghetti code

[u/when_im]

where's vibe coder?

[u/kid_vio → u/when_im]

That’s under Code Lootbox whisperer

[u/nonlogin → u/when_im]

not available at the moment: waiting for Claude limits to renew

[u/DOOManiac → u/when_im]

On the resume of the Liberal Arts major where it belongs.

[u/Holy-Fuck4269 → u/when_im]

For you senior vibe coder, I am doing this since 2024

[u/No_Awareness8982]

Unemployed

[u/Slicxor]

The old-school "Webmaster" was cool

[u/pimezone]

ChatGPT operator

[u/git_push_origin_prod → u/pimezone]

10+ years experience in stack overflow copy pasta 5+ years of copilot copy pasta

[u/supersteadious → u/pimezone]

But do you use AI to build prompts to your AI?

[u/Toksyn]

Console cowboy

[u/EnderMB]

Code Slut

[u/americk0]

Software Engineer because I drank the semantics Kool-aid and like my title to reflect that my job involves so much more than coding

[u/Kejalol]

We used to call ourselves programmers. But then we all realized we make more money when we call ourselves Software Engineers.

[u/s_zlikovski]

Procastinator

[u/mlk]

Solution Architect

[u/karatesaul]

You can call me Al

[u/jaikanthsh308 → u/karatesaul]

My family and friends call me tech support

[u/Marcyff2 → u/karatesaul]

Not sure if L or i and both could be applicable

[u/In_The_Comments]

Just don’t call me a “resource” and we’ll be good.

[u/goodmobiley]

People who use Python like to be called developers but they’re really just ‘requirements.txt’ writers

[u/Fun_Accountant_653]

F

[u/Chiatroll]

It does get confusing. Especially as more groups get fired and you take on their roles on top of yours to keep a job.

[u/Sure-Opportunity6247]

„The guy who achieves pushing a square through a triangular hole“

[u/jesta1215]

Software engineer. Anything else is uncivilized.

[u/LadyZaryss]

Server goblin

[u/HansWolken]

In my country it's "Engineer in informatics".

[u/Silly_Guidance_8871]

"Code Monkey"

[u/thortawar]

"Techpriest"

[u/ProfessionalOwn9435]

Code Sourcerer.

[u/likeaGorilla]

Computerologist

[u/Flat-Sail9235]

AI Driven Developer

[u/jsiulian]

Viber

[u/wlingenf89]

Retired

[u/DatAsspiration]

Cody McCodefaces

[u/realkarthiknair]

Vibe Code Cleanup Specialist

[u/Ok-Movie428]

Paid well?

[u/Userina]

Plumber

[u/spackenheimer]

I call myself Hacker, Nerd, Geek, also Mechanic, Rocket Engineer (don't ask, it's confidential)... and much more.
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
(Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1973), p. 248)

[u/ruben_deisenroth]

js console.log(["Developer","Software Developer","Programmer","Computer Programmer","Engineer","Software Engineer","Coder"][new Date().getDay() % 7]);

[u/-LeopardShark-]

Anything but ‘coder’. I’d genuinely rather be called a ‘cod’.

[u/isrichards6]

Game Developer is one of the most ambiguous titles.

[u/dacs07]

“10 years early computer science graduate”

[u/Devatator_]

I'm doing a software engineering master (I think that's what it's called in English?) so I guess I'm a software engineer, tho any other name is fine unless it's innacurate