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> Should practicing doctors, no matter how accomplished, prepare as if sitting for their boards every single time they start the interviewing process to say, mo
by n00b101 10y ago
> Should practicing doctors, no matter how accomplished, prepare as if sitting for their boards every single time they start the interviewing process to say, move to a new hospital?
But software engineers doesn't have any such designation or examination process, so I don't understand this analogy. If anyone could call themselves a doctor, then the interview process would have to be far more rigorous.
Also, I think doctors do need to rewrite certain exams every few years to retain their medical license.
- yourapostasy 10y agoMost everyone with an undergraduate CS degree will have taken an algorithms course. I think the comparisons with designation and examinations is drawing a rough equivalency to these designations, for example. I can't offhand think of another high-skill profession where the interviewing process tends to draw upon one phase of a career (undergraduate studies), and one specific aspect in that phase (algorithms and not say, compiler design, or programming languages survey, or software engineering, etc.), so our field might be a little odd in that respect if indeed that kind of emphasis is rare across high-skill fields. Doctors, PE's, attorneys have continuing education requirements, but I haven't heard of doctors boning up on say, anatomy or OChem for their interviews, for example. For those who hold a PE, what have interviews in your field been like?