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Electricians are poor examples: in many states, you must be licensed (which generally requires some combination of education, experience, and certification). M
by bmj 13y ago
Electricians are poor examples: in many states, you must be licensed (which generally requires some combination of education, experience, and certification). Many states also require the electrician to hold some amount of liability insurance.
Granted, this does not ensure that the electrician you hire won't screw up, but it at least provides some baseline of competency.
- Fuxy 13y agoMost of us have finished schools for this shit so that would more than equal the electricians license. How fast you write code or how much code you write does not equal a good programmer.
- asadlionpk 13y agoBut speed does tell the candidate's familiarity with the given problem.
- MichaelGG 13y agoI'd guess that a licensed electricians can probably perform their jobs better than people that have "finished schools". I've interviewed people with a "master's degree in computer science" that literally did not know what binary search was. Or people 3/4 years through a "computing engineering" degree that would get mixed up with if and while loops. I doubt licensed electricians remained licensed for long if they don't know the difference between hot and neutral wires.
- Mikeb85 13y agoAround here electricians go through a 4 year apprenticeship with 4 two month school sessions. Only then do they work without supervision. Plenty of programmers have 2 year certificates or none at all. That being said, I'd consider programming to be a 'creative' profession in many ways...
- bmj 13y agoI wonder if a better analogy might be a carpenter or general contractor. License requirements in most states have little to do skill or experience, but rather with carrying liability insurance and conforming to consumer protection codes.