Lawyers and Doctors have 1) Very stringent standards, particularly in Medicine 2) Doctors guilds control how many people get medical education 3) It's often

Lawyers and Doctors have 1) Very stringent standards, particularly in Medicine 2) Doctors guilds control how many people get medical education 3) It's often 'nationally dependent' wherein skills are not always transferrable. 'Software Developer' can mean anything which has advantages and drawbacks. I for one, wish there were some kind of 'basic general certification' frankly. There are so many 'not very good devs' I would like to just completely ignore people with out some basic qualifications. The 'exams' might even require us to 'fill in some blanks' in our education because all of us have blind-spots! It might be hard to do something like that from an examination level though.