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I'm of the old school I guess, and I think "Engineer" has a special meaning that generally does not apply to what most software developers/programmers do.

To me, the term "programmer" connotes a person who is performing more or less rote translation of specifications or a detailed design into software code.

"Developer" connotes a more holistic involvement in the entire process of constructing software applications.

YMMV.

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Indeed. Weinberg's Second Law states "If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization".

I am glad engineer is not "synonymous" with "programmer".

Tons of companies refer to their programmers as engineers; "our engineering team is working on the issue".

It's specially insulting when said "engineers" build things like Sharepoint...

It's even more insulting when they are used just to fill some Excel sheets and monitoring logs.

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