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Is there a universally or even widely accepted difference?

There is a widely accepted difference in the US: the PE exam. Other countries make it flat out illegal to call yourself an engineer without the proper credentials.

The difference between software developer and software engineer is ~$10k. http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Software_Developer/S... http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Software_Engineer/Sa...

lol, you realize that none of the Google "software engineers" are accredited?

Google Canada calls their employees software developers. Everyone would just call themselves a different name and life would move on as nobody cares.

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