Traditional Portuguese degrees in Software Engineering are 5 years, on average people take 7.

When Bologna came around and reduced them to 3, Portuguese universities got around it by offering degree + MSc, so basically business as usual.

Known in English as Licentiate Degree.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licentiate_(degree)

So, nope not 3 years.

Yes, but we have been discussing bachelor's degrees, not bachelor's + master's.

In Licentiate, bachelor's are 5 years, master 2 years, and PhD another 3.

One of the reasons to Bologna was to try to harmonize the fact that countries like Portugal, someone with a degree would be downgraded when applying abroad.

So we are pretty much discussing bachelor degrees.