This sounds an awful lot like a college diploma.

bigfishrunning 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Lots of people get through engineering school but are terrible engineers. Interviews are important (and difficult... Not many people are good interviewers!)

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tayo42 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Colleges aren't all equal.

Professional certifications are different

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hunterpayne 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Professional certifications have a terrible reputation for good reason. You are perhaps too young to know why this is a silly idea. But its been tried and it failed spectacularly.

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acheron 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It works in essentially every other profession. Programming isn’t that special.

	▲	jjmarr 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		In essentially every other profession the credential is gated behind years of work experience and often a degree or course. We already have such a credential. It's called "lasting two years at a FAANG+ without getting fired". If you do that you can get interviews anywhere.
	▲	operatingthetan 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It appears that the coding job will be some variation will be some variation of vibecoding going forward, so a professional cert might be good enough.

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tayo42 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I have an example of a certification that is useful in my first comment...