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I've never met someone who was like "Programmer" and "Software Developer" are too different! Same with "Coder". "Software Engineer" in some countries would be a no-no but many places it's interchangeable. Further, I've done some research on the psychology behind it and usually "software developer" and "software engineers" is a better way to put it for negotiation if that's possible because you're seen more as someone who makes something rather than "really expensive computer guy".



I've seen companies that are real sticklers for that sort of thing claiming that if one falsifies that what else are they about? Yes,nit is asinine but it does happen


Well if anyone can be a stickler it'll definitely be that programmer that was once burnt by a rogue semicolon.

I'm sure it happens sometimes. I just haven't personally seen it with the roles "Software developer", "coder", and "programmer". That is effectively the same thing everywhere I've seen it. Now if I'm a programmer and say I worked in primarily QA or database position we have a problem, but there's no real nuance between those three titles.




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