[bigyikes]

I’m sure there are plenty of useful things to be learned from a certification program, but beyond a certain skill level, they are meaningless on a resume. Actually, at a high level role I’d view it as a negative - it reads like a lack of demonstrable skills.

[waynesonfire]

> beyond a certain skill level, they are meaningless on a resume

why not create a certificate that is prestige, even for experienced developers? Maybe it would deprecate the ridiculous leetcode interview process.

The software engineer industry needs the equivalent of CFA (in finance). That means something.

[gcheong]

Well it's not for lack of trying (e.g https://www.computer.org/education/courses) but I think there is a bit of a chicken and egg problem in that it's hard to prove to employers that your certificate means anything and it's a hard sell for engineers if they don't see it being recognized by employers. Also, I think it's probably too close to licensing which engineers overall seem to be very much against.

[vunderba]

We had one. For a brief period of time there was an actual proper PE exam for the software engineering industry.

https://ncees.org/exams/pe-exam/

https://ncees.org/ncees-discontinuing-pe-software-engineerin...