• Hot SaucermanOP
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    1 year ago

    I don’t disagree, but a “guild” is not it. Engineers in other disciplines have to actually have “engineering” credentials. Software engineers do not, but it sounds like they probably should considering other engineers are held to standards. The States have their own engineering boards to give out and monitor engineer license status. Why isn’t there one for software engineering? There needs to be, but it need not be a guild.

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      1 year ago

      The States have their own engineering boards to give out and monitor engineer license status. Why isn’t there one for software engineering?

      There used to be one! It was discontinued (a) for lack of interest since no jobs or regulations require it, and (b) because being eligible to sit for the Professional Engineer (P.E.) exam requires having spent X years (X=4 or more, depending on circumstances) working under the supervision of a licensed P.E., and not many software engineers worked under licensed P.E.s.

      (I’m a software engineer with a civil EIT license and worked in the software industry under a civil P.E., so think I would’ve actually been one of the weirdos in a position to be licensed as a software P.E. Unfortunately, they did away with it before I got the chance.)

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        1 year ago

        That last bit makes a lot of sense, actually, about not having enough licensed P.E. to work under for four years or more. That’s kind of a bummer, because the person I was responding to isn’t wrong, we’re handing the reigns of sysadmin duties to a lot of relatively under-trained folks.

        However, on the flip side, the fact that we don’t have such a thing is part of what makes the internet so open. Literally anyone is allowed to make their own website.

    • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The States have their own engineering boards to give out and monitor engineer license status. Why isn’t there one for software engineering?

      Because unlike developers, engineers from poor countries can’t build stuff remotely.

      In case there’s requirement to hire only software engineers with licence then companies will just outsource as much as they can.

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        1 year ago

        In case there’s requirement to hire only software engineers with licence then companies will just outsource as much as they can.

        When did the people in the outsourcing countries suddenly get a state endorsed software engineering license? I would think the opposite would happen, it would restrict outsourcing until other countries had similar licenses for software engineers.

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          1 year ago

          Oh you sound so naive my dude.

          These corporations would just ‘buy’ products or services from third parties.

          What is the US government going to do? Stop Bank of America from getting service from Infosys or some other vendor?