You would need a professional organisation to lobby for laws, but I don't see engineers in the industry coming together and forming one. Professional organisat

You would need a professional organisation to lobby for laws, but I don't see engineers in the industry coming together and forming one. Professional organisations were a way to keep people out of a field by requiring them to have the connections or the money to afford the study materials and exam fees. And don't forget continuing education costs as well. This concept would turn away many of the anti-establishment types in the industry. That said, we are seeing signs of standardisation in the hiring process. TripleByte is gaining traction and maybe in a few years applicants will need to be "TripleByte Certified™" before they're even considered for an interview at larger company. However there will always be scrappy startups that eschew this and just hire whoever can code and think. Personally, I don't have too many complaints with hiring in our industry. It's been criticised lately, but it's still more democratic than law, or finance. The sheer number of first-generation immigrants that are in Silicon Valley and NY working in the field are a testament to this.