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anthklast Wednesday at 5:00 PM3 repliesview on HN

In Europe they are. Call yourself an Engineer without a degree and your company and you will be sued with a big fine, because here you must be legally accountable on disasters and ofc there are hard constraints .


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embedding-shapelast Wednesday at 5:13 PM

> In Europe they are

Where specifically? I've been working as a "Software engineer" for multiple decades, across three countries in Europe, and 2-3 countries outside of Europe, never been sued or received a "big fine" for this, even have had presentations for government teams and similar, not a single person have reacted to me (or others) calling ourselves "software engineers" this whole time.

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organsnyderlast Wednesday at 5:52 PM

Canada also (at least some provinces). I have quite a few Canadian software engineer colleagues with their iron rings to prove it.

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petr25102018last Wednesday at 6:44 PM

No, that's plain wrong (I am from Czech Republic). You can even get an "engineering degree" (Ing.) by studying economics.