Ask HN: Is there a spectrum of difficulty/prestige in programming?
I'm a CS student and I've been wondering about this. It seems most professions have this type of thing.
For example in engineering you would have chem eng at one end and maybe mechanical or something at the other. Doctors would have a scale that goes from, say, brain surgeons to (just guessing) podiatrists. In the military it would go from (probably) fighter pilots or Delta Force to basic infantry.
My question is, Does the programming/software eng. profession have a similar scale (or the perception of one, which is basically the same thing)? Or in other words, what would be the opposite of writing unit tests at your local insurance company? A web startup? AI? Trading bots?
For example in engineering you would have chem eng at one end and maybe mechanical or something at the other. Doctors would have a scale that goes from, say, brain surgeons to (just guessing) podiatrists. In the military it would go from (probably) fighter pilots or Delta Force to basic infantry.
My question is, Does the programming/software eng. profession have a similar scale (or the perception of one, which is basically the same thing)? Or in other words, what would be the opposite of writing unit tests at your local insurance company? A web startup? AI? Trading bots?