[gwbas1c]

In the medical profession, doctors go through a formal, multi-day certification process. Interviewing a doctor is mostly about mutual interest in the workplace; because no one in the interview needs to prove competence.

In contrast, in our profession, certifications tend to be useless. (Certifications tend to be technology-focused, instead of broader skillsets needed to be a software engineer.)

It's like we, as an industry, need to come up with a robust certification process that determines competence.

[hellisothers]

Man this so hard. I would pay $1000+ per x years to go to a 3 day certification event where I have to create software and have that software be judged and certified competent. With the assumption that companies would pay the same very board $5000 for my results and I could skip the lame, poor signal programming portion of interviews.