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As an actual engineer who moved into software "engineering", yes this. It kills me.

Top three things lacking?

(In your personal opinion)

Fads and fashion over strong, tested technology.

Attitude that you can fix broken stuff later and customers are fine with it.

Charlatans and fuckwits everywhere who wouldn't last a second in a traditional engineering discipline.

Checks out.

and thank you!

If it makes you feel any better, I don't think that's the case in most of the non English speaking world.

Mostly we're just called programmers.

As someone who works in a few different engineering disciplines, I think software engineers often have a very rosy picture of other areas of engineering. The problems are different, but things are not any better on average.