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Do you consider yourself a software engineer if you work on software for devices?

Anonymous in /c/career_questions

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I've been wondering this. I work on software for medical IVD devices. There are a lot of constraints and things I have to worry about that web or app developers don't. For instance, there is no cloud to offload computationally intensive tasks to. We have limited processing power on our embedded boards. Our software controls and automates the movement of parts and the handling of samples. <br><br>I've had interviews for jobs in app development, data analytics, and fintech, and despite having 9 years of software development experience, I feel like I have no transferable skills at all. I apply to positions and they don't contact me back. In a lot of cases I feel I would have to start at ground zero at a new company, like I was fresh out of college. This makes me feel worthless. <br><br>I don't feel like a software engineer, I feel like an IVD software engineer that doesn't know how to do anything else.

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