In Ontario, basically the professional engineering organization complains about people using the term Software Engineer, and occasionally goes after a big company because of it, meanwhile on a day to day basis everyone uses the term anyways.
If you’re applying for jobs from companies that are not based in this province, and refuse to call yourself a software engineer, you’ll be passed over for someone equally qualified from one state over who will.
When you’re on a team and you’re the only one in Ontario, you’re not going to insist that you don’t refer to your team as the engineering team.
If you’re applying to an Ontario company, that’s usually when you’ll start seeing them respect the distinction more, but even then, jobs will almost always just be posted for developers because most places don’t actually care about the distinction and want both to apply.
In Ontario, basically the professional engineering organization complains about people using the term Software Engineer, and occasionally goes after a big company because of it, meanwhile on a day to day basis everyone uses the term anyways.
If you’re applying for jobs from companies that are not based in this province, and refuse to call yourself a software engineer, you’ll be passed over for someone equally qualified from one state over who will.
When you’re on a team and you’re the only one in Ontario, you’re not going to insist that you don’t refer to your team as the engineering team.
If you’re applying to an Ontario company, that’s usually when you’ll start seeing them respect the distinction more, but even then, jobs will almost always just be posted for developers because most places don’t actually care about the distinction and want both to apply.