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A certification scheme like this could work, but it would need to be regularly renewed (every 5 years?). Passing it a single time early in one’s career is no in
by MontyCarloHall 5y ago
A certification scheme like this could work, but it would need to be regularly renewed (every 5 years?). Passing it a single time early in one’s career is no indication that coding proficiency still exists later in one’s career.
In my experience, basic coding skills can really atrophy in senior developers who quit writing code years ago and are full-time architects/managers. I’ve interviewed more than a handful of highly accomplished people with decades of experience as developers and then engineering managers who couldn’t answer extremely basic coding questions (I’m not talking about Leetcode-esque BS, I mean stuff closer to FizzBuzz).
- ryandrake 5y agoI kind of like the system they have for pilots: 1. A major exam/hurdle at the very beginning (FAA checkride), and then 2. Basic proficiency checks every 24 months done by an instructor. Vary that period as appropriate for developers. You get the initial weed-out of people who have no business being developers, and then periodic checkpoints to make sure atrophy is not a concern.