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As someone not in tech, I have no idea how to refer to my tech friends' jobs (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] expr@programming.dev 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In my experience all terms are used pretty interchangeably (well, rarely programmer or coder, I guess), though I prefer software engineer.

[โ€“] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

I also prefer engineer but that's mostly just due to the complexity of my current role vs my old one.