Other engineers also do sloppy jobs. HN simply puts too much credit to other engineers out there.
On the other side, we do have our certifications for some career paths though, like cloud and security, but I'm not sure if they instill confidence for hiring managers if such is not required by government.
Programming is supposed to be reachable and doable by anyone who loves it. We already have walls for many other things, let's keep programming from the mindset.
One trouble w/ the certifications is they are generally around some specific technology and not principles.
For instance I had no problem at all switching from Java to C# and there's a certain kind of developer who is not intimidated at all in starting in a new job in a language they don't know. (e.g. even as a consultant I had other people pay me to get started in Python)
The certifications however are always for Red Hat or Microsoft or Oracle or AWS, something that is either proprietary or that tries to package something open source as if it was proprietary. In some cases these programs are pretty good (MSCE was pretty rigorous back in the day) but they add to the fragmentation of the industry.
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Other engineers also do sloppy jobs. HN simply puts too much credit to other engineers out there.
On the other side, we do have our certifications for some career paths though, like cloud and security, but I'm not sure if they instill confidence for hiring managers if such is not required by government.
Programming is supposed to be reachable and doable by anyone who loves it. We already have walls for many other things, let's keep programming from the mindset.
One trouble w/ the certifications is they are generally around some specific technology and not principles.
For instance I had no problem at all switching from Java to C# and there's a certain kind of developer who is not intimidated at all in starting in a new job in a language they don't know. (e.g. even as a consultant I had other people pay me to get started in Python)
The certifications however are always for Red Hat or Microsoft or Oracle or AWS, something that is either proprietary or that tries to package something open source as if it was proprietary. In some cases these programs are pretty good (MSCE was pretty rigorous back in the day) but they add to the fragmentation of the industry.