I think SWE requires two things: - a centralized accrediting authority with uniform standards. - a apprenticeship model. An apprenticeship model let's you sc

I think SWE requires two things: - a centralized accrediting authority with uniform standards. - a apprenticeship model. An apprenticeship model let's you score folks while they're early in their careers and provides a standardized way to traverse levels of software engineering. This will show an engineer can write code. In my opinion, writing code is not the same as writing optimal code, and also isn't uniformly required. For finding people that can write optimal code you need someone with a more mathematics heavy background. That is where a centralized accrediting entity can determine that you have tested on algorithms, data structures, and how they are related for entities that need that. This differs from college because the standard is uniform.