> the programming profession needs a similar credential
And who will handle the distribution of that credential... The moment it is required to have one, thousands of private universities of questionable quality will be dispensing such credentials just like how they have been dispensing engineering titles. Totally legal. What difference will it make compared to the existing situation...
Or is it so that these credentials should be distributed by a few elite institutions to make it safer.
What difference does this make from the current situation in which top corporations hire top people for top tier work? So everyone will have to hire MIT, Pekin U, Tokyo U or Berlin U graduates?
And what happens when centers like San Francisco suck all of those graduates away from the rest of the market and cram them into the expansive tech business? Leaving the Automotive industry as scarce of such top talent as it is now? Will the auto companies pay more money than Google et al to attract that top talent? Something which they could easily do now, but arent?
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So basically your proposition will not change anything, but it will just introduce more bureaucracy into software.
Read my comment above. A PE is a license, a credential approved by the state, not a certification given by a company. As with other licenses, it's FAR more comprehensive than just passing a test, and requires working experience. My wife required 2500! hours of work to qualify for taking the second test in her mental health counseling licensing. We're talking about 2 different things.
> A PE is a license, a credential approved by the state, not a certification given by a company
And state, that is behind in everything related to technology, is going to be the arbiter of the 'best practices' in a field that progresses faster than what even the top universities of the world can cope up with...
So basically this would force software into a profession lagging from ~100 years behind like other engineering fields...
And who will handle the distribution of that credential... The moment it is required to have one, thousands of private universities of questionable quality will be dispensing such credentials just like how they have been dispensing engineering titles. Totally legal. What difference will it make compared to the existing situation...
Or is it so that these credentials should be distributed by a few elite institutions to make it safer.
What difference does this make from the current situation in which top corporations hire top people for top tier work? So everyone will have to hire MIT, Pekin U, Tokyo U or Berlin U graduates?
And what happens when centers like San Francisco suck all of those graduates away from the rest of the market and cram them into the expansive tech business? Leaving the Automotive industry as scarce of such top talent as it is now? Will the auto companies pay more money than Google et al to attract that top talent? Something which they could easily do now, but arent?
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So basically your proposition will not change anything, but it will just introduce more bureaucracy into software.