Meh. For most of us the people hiring and judging our work are programmers themselves, and they're gonna think you're lame if you try to inflate your status via your job title ... and tbh in my experience business people aren't dumb enough to think that a "software solutions engineer" is anything different to a plain old programmer
"Meh. For most of us the people hiring and judging our work are programmers themselves, and they're gonna think you're lame if you try to inflate your status via your job title"
Talking about a previous role from different perspectives (end-user, technological, business, etc) shows a balance that is rare and valuable in our field.
There are many expert technical developers that are no more valuable to a company than an average developer. They are too busy focusing on the craft and the process more than the overall product, the end-user experience, and the business value added.
> my experience business people aren't dumb enough to think that a "software solutions engineer" is anything different to a plain old programmer
This is true, but I think misses the broader point of the article. It's not really about the title you have (though that's unfortunately what the name of the article suggests), it's about explaining your personal value to an employer in terms of business value created.
> For most of us the people hiring and judging
> our work are programmers themselves ...
Is that really true? Do you think that most programmers are hired by other programmers, rather than by non-programmers?
I wonder if that is true. Certainly most programmers I know personally were interviewed by programmers, but the final decision was taken (admittedly with advice) by non-programming business people.
Where I work the decision to hire is made by the business, the actual candidate selection is done by programming team leads, with some input from the dev manager (whose role is mostly to look for red flags). I think the last time I was hired by someone who hadn't written code within the last 6 months was in the 90s.
