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Is Software Engineering Real Engineering?

Updated on September 11, 2023
Hillel Wayne
Hillel Wayne

Chief Everything Office at Windy Coast Consulting

What makes software engineering different from “traditional” engineering? To find out, I interviewed 17 “crossovers”: people who have worked professionally as both a software and a traditional engineer. In aggregate, we learn three things: we are in fact engineers, we’re not actually that different as a field, and there’s a lot we can both teach and learn.