I think the hard thing is that there’s just a lot of mediocre programmers out there writing mediocre software. Should they be accredited or not?
I think a lot of average programmers will end up accredited if they see it as a path to a job, just like we see with Microsoft certificate programs. And if that happens, I wouldn’t want the accreditation test to be my company’s hiring bar. I’ll still run my own interview to make sure candidates are actually good. And so will most companies. So the time consuming interviews won’t actually go away.
The one big problem licensing would solve is that we could insist some baseline amount of security knowledge is in the tests. Right now, plenty of people get jobs handling sensitive personal data without knowing the first thing about how to keep data secure. That just can’t continue. It’s insane.
I think a lot of average programmers will end up accredited if they see it as a path to a job, just like we see with Microsoft certificate programs. And if that happens, I wouldn’t want the accreditation test to be my company’s hiring bar. I’ll still run my own interview to make sure candidates are actually good. And so will most companies. So the time consuming interviews won’t actually go away.
The one big problem licensing would solve is that we could insist some baseline amount of security knowledge is in the tests. Right now, plenty of people get jobs handling sensitive personal data without knowing the first thing about how to keep data secure. That just can’t continue. It’s insane.