> It would be really cool if the ACM, BCS, IEEE, or any one of those professional associations, Not software engineering, but AWS/GCP/Azure* certifications are

> It would be really cool if the ACM, BCS, IEEE, or any one of those professional associations, Not software engineering, but AWS/GCP/Azure* certifications are basically this. They are rigorous enough that you can't just luck into passing the tests, you actually have to study (for the higher level ones at least). And some are tiered, so you have to get a requisite cert, wait, then take the test for the next level. ABET has a professional engineering exam for software engineering, but nobody ever takes it. This is the same organization responsible for licensing other engineering disciplines. I find it interesting that so many software engineers denigrate the field for not being "real" engineering, but none of those people are taking the FE/PE exams to create that critical mass necessary to begin making it a requirement for employment. Part of this might be ignorance, maybe people don't know that software engineering has a licensing body already. Or maybe most of us don't want to be forced to get a license for a job. * I don't have Azure certs, so I'm assuming here.