[galmactima]

We need to have some kind of standard in the industry. It's just like how here in Canada we have the plague of regulatory bodies given the legal right to make it illegal to call yourself "Software Engineer" as a protected term unless you have a B.Eng. and spend 3 years in gov't controlled training programs. What a joke. What we really need to do is set up some fucking standards so that braindead developers can't cheese their way into industry and get promoted to "Senior Developer" by writing mediocre, barely functional JavaScript code among other monkey-brained developers writing barely functional code of a similar caliber. It's becoming an epidemic of self-taught bootcamp idiots who're destroying the industry and decimating uptime and availability which competent developers are then required to fix on-call, and I'm tired of pretending it's not.

[briga]

So on the one hand you’re complaining about regulatory bodies keeping standards for job titles. But on the other you’re gatekeeping the industry against people who don’t have traditional education. Surely the problem isn’t bootcamp grads, but rather the companies that would let an incompetent engineer get promoted to senior in the first place.

I do agree that keeping preventing Canadian developers from calling themselves engineers is a joke (let’s see them try and stop me)

[klodolph]

It's not just this industry though, it's lots of industries.

"Communications director" is something you have to fucking decipher with a code you get on the back of your Froot Loops box, because it means one thing at one company and something radically different at another. Just to give an example. Reading somebody's resume can be hell.