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I started as a mobile dev, transitioned to backend, and somewhere between then and now, I've become an engineer. My skillset never really changed and the only cert I have is unrelated to code. I feel like it's just title creep. When I was a kid building websites "web dev" was the cool title. Now it's "something something engineer."

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I mean, in fairness to me (and possibly you, I don't know), I do a lot more algorithmic stuff now than when I first started. I actually have to think about time-complexity in what I do, in addition to knowing the best kind of concurrency algorithms for a certain task.

I haven't done any web dev in awhile, and my understanding is that this has changed, but when I was doing it, you could get away without worrying a lot about performance or theory.

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