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Dentists, lawyers, surgeons and accountants have professional bodies issuing licenses or certifications. Those licenses verify that the candidate in question ha
by yen223 7y ago
Dentists, lawyers, surgeons and accountants have professional bodies issuing licenses or certifications. Those licenses verify that the candidate in question has at least met some arbitrary skill level in their respective field.
The software industry, for better or worse, have collectively rejected having such a professional body, which means companies looking for software engineers wind up having to evaluate programming skills individually.
- mrfusion 7y agoI think the more important factor is those professions consider themselves high status and wouldn’t put up with incompetent-until-proven-otherwise interviews. Programmers as a group don’t stand up for themselves.