given the demographics here, i can imagine for many of us the first impression was "someone lying on their cv for a tech job got caught".
but "real" engineering (as my core engineer professors used to snark at us) has real-life consequence and many countries have laws for holding their work accountable. this is just an example of that but to save face, they are focusing on their credentials in this case.
as an "engineer" in tech myself, i really feel that our industry misappropriates a lot of these terms, at least for job titles. i am all for naming consistently this way, but we need to also treat what we do in the same lens then. like the recent crowdstrike incident would have also resulted in jailing someone, but not sure if we need to be that serious about it.
but "real" engineering (as my core engineer professors used to snark at us) has real-life consequence and many countries have laws for holding their work accountable. this is just an example of that but to save face, they are focusing on their credentials in this case.
as an "engineer" in tech myself, i really feel that our industry misappropriates a lot of these terms, at least for job titles. i am all for naming consistently this way, but we need to also treat what we do in the same lens then. like the recent crowdstrike incident would have also resulted in jailing someone, but not sure if we need to be that serious about it.