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Except that Tech isn't a profession. Professions have bodies that establish and enforce professional standards and appropriate evaluations and credentials. Pro
by rswail 8y ago
Except that Tech isn't a profession. Professions have bodies that establish and enforce professional standards and appropriate evaluations and credentials.
Programmers that call themselves "engineers" are fooling themselves. Unless they are doing the sort of programming that the NASA shuttle team used, none of us are "engineers".
- walshemj 8y agoIn the UK The BCS and IEEE would beg to differ. And a profession is not just the piece of paper its about social standing and relative pay rates. And anyone with a degree who works in there field is a "engineer" even though the number that go for full Chartered status is a small minority - and that is more about who you know not what you know.
- gaius 8y agoThe BCS The BCS is a complete joke, completely irrelevant to anyone working in the field, I have no idea how it still exists or what it actually does for practitioners or for the industry.
- GFischer 8y agoHere in Uruguay if you wish to call yourself an "engineer" you need to have an accredited engineering degree. There is a career called C.S. Engineer and it has an huge amount of math and physics (equivalent to an undergrad + master's in the U.S.). Most of us take the career that's equivalent to an undergraduate degree though, the extra math (and grueling attrition) is mostly useless. But graduates are very sought after because they've proven themselves able to go through a tough grind (even though they don't have a shred of practical experience after graduating)