Differences between programmers, architects and software engineers

1. Programmers, architects and software engineers have different ability requirements. Programmers are engaged in program development and program maintenance, but they are not good at writing documents. The technical requirements of software engineers are comprehensive, and they will be skilled in writing language codes and writing some project documents. Architect is an important figure in the process of software development, and is mainly responsible for the architecture design of large-scale system projects.

2. Programmers, architects and software engineers have different levels. Programmers are divided into junior programmers and intermediate programmers. Software engineer is a kind of professional ability certification for people engaged in software profession. Architects are team leaders and need to be promoted from senior software engineers to architects.

3. The average annual salary of programmers, architects and software engineers is different. The average annual salary of Google programmers in the United States is128336,000, while the average annual salary of software engineers is higher. The average annual salary of Google software engineers is $250,000-$300,000, and the salary of architects is the highest. Google Big Data Architects earn $500,000-$600,000 a year.

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Baidu encyclopedia-software architect

Baidu encyclopedia-software engineer

Baidu encyclopedia-programmer