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Lawyers need to have passed the bar. Accountants need their CPA. Doctors their MD. Pharmacists their Pharm.D. Finance professionals their CFA. And so on. Softw

Lawyers need to have passed the bar. Accountants need their CPA. Doctors their MD. Pharmacists their Pharm.D. Finance professionals their CFA. And so on. Software engineers making 150K with only a four year degree and some leetcode have nothing to complain about. Take homes? Whiteboards? Cry me a river. Try to pass the bar or get through residency instead.

jjav 4y ago
> Try to pass the bar or get through residency instead. It would be wonderful to have an equivalente for computer science. You do it right after graduating, study for it once and you're done. Not leetcoding for 6 months every other year for life which is ridiculous waste of time.
sarchertech 4y ago
Those jobs are a minority of white collar office jobs.
sarchertech 4y ago
You pass the bar 1 time. Not every couple years.
- dragonwriter 4y ago
  > You pass the bar 1 time. Not every couple years. You maintain a current law license, which requires having passed the bar once, continuing education requirements, and the absence of professional mal-, mis-, or non-feasance sufficient to lose that license. Taken together, the requirements are ongoing, though some individual elements are one-time.
  - sarchertech 4y ago
    In my state lawyers need 15 hours per year. If they are anything like my wife’s medical continuing education credits they are super easy to get because many of the things she already has to do for work count. Not getting disbarred hardly counts as an ongoing requirement in all but the most meaningless sense of the word.
  - em-bee 4y ago
    you do that while you are on the job, and generally i expect that the time and cost for that is covered by the current employer.
ghaff 4y ago
And so on is doing a lot of work there. Most professional jobs, whether technical or more on the business side, have very little in the way of credentialing requirements beyond mostly having a strong preference for an undergrad degree. If anything, my impression is that a degree like an MBA is considered less essential for many jobs than it used to be.
pjmlp 4y ago
Sure, sorry in Portuguese, but there is always the option to use Google Translate, https://www.ordemengenheiros.pt/pt/a-ordem/colegios-e-especialidades/informatica/ https://www.ordemengenheiros.pt/pt/a-ordem/colegios-e-especi... Problem is people calling themselves engineers without being one.

jjav 4y ago

> Try to pass the bar or get through residency instead. It would be wonderful to have an equivalente for computer science. You do it right after graduating, study for it once and you're done. Not leetcoding for 6 months every other year for life which is ridiculous waste of time.

sarchertech 4y ago

Those jobs are a minority of white collar office jobs.

sarchertech 4y ago

You pass the bar 1 time. Not every couple years.

dragonwriter 4y ago
> You pass the bar 1 time. Not every couple years. You maintain a current law license, which requires having passed the bar once, continuing education requirements, and the absence of professional mal-, mis-, or non-feasance sufficient to lose that license. Taken together, the requirements are ongoing, though some individual elements are one-time.
- sarchertech 4y ago
  In my state lawyers need 15 hours per year. If they are anything like my wife’s medical continuing education credits they are super easy to get because many of the things she already has to do for work count. Not getting disbarred hardly counts as an ongoing requirement in all but the most meaningless sense of the word.
- em-bee 4y ago
  you do that while you are on the job, and generally i expect that the time and cost for that is covered by the current employer.

ghaff 4y ago

And so on is doing a lot of work there. Most professional jobs, whether technical or more on the business side, have very little in the way of credentialing requirements beyond mostly having a strong preference for an undergrad degree. If anything, my impression is that a degree like an MBA is considered less essential for many jobs than it used to be.

pjmlp 4y ago

Sure, sorry in Portuguese, but there is always the option to use Google Translate, https://www.ordemengenheiros.pt/pt/a-ordem/colegios-e-especialidades/informatica/ https://www.ordemengenheiros.pt/pt/a-ordem/colegios-e-especi... Problem is people calling themselves engineers without being one.