> Wouldn't it be great, both from an employer's POV and from the candidate's POV, if you could show that you passed the exam and received your license from the

> Wouldn't it be great, both from an employer's POV and from the candidate's POV, if you could show that you passed the exam and received your license from the Coding Board, therefore you have some very basic set of skills? There are some certification authorities in the US, but as far as I'm aware, the top programs haven't even bothered with it (MIT, Stanford, CMU...). The main issue is that all CS degrees aren't created equal. Someone can graduate without much programming at certain schools (where the degree is way more math focused). That's completely fine in itself, it's ok to have an option to focus on theoretical math, but it's not necessarily what employers are looking for. Abroad, like in France and Switzerland, they seem to have some certification body that checks the course curricula and determines if it passes the bar to be called engineering. Perhaps not the best example as these two countries are smaller and, at least for France, way more centralized than the US. To be completely honest, I fast track interviews for new grads of certain institutions because I'm familiar with their programs and I know what they studied.