Too much software engineering is learned on the job, and your job is usually dictated by laymen you have no control over and who may or may not give a damn abou

Too much software engineering is learned on the job, and your job is usually dictated by laymen you have no control over and who may or may not give a damn about your career. You might work at a hygenic, technical garden, you might work at an Agile SCRUM feature factory that de facto prohibits re-factoring. But University CS programs aren't the proper place for this pedagogy either, and I don't see SWE guilds popping up for a few reasons.