Don't reject the not real engineering folk. I'm fairly certain the only reason companies are so eager to label all software developers as engineers is because there are often loopholes in overtime laws specifically for engineers, with the logic that the engineer was in charge of the project and the schedule, and if there are problems, that's on them.

I've yet to see a software project where an software engineer was given much leeway in how a project was run, scoped, or where any of their concerns about the scope, schedule, or lack of an actual plan were taken seriously... I'll gladly trade being falsely labelled an engineer for overtime pay to cleanup the mess on schedule yet again.