>Standardizing testing and certification systems likely wouldn’t be effective in a field as fast-paced as software engineering.<p>I tend to agree. I would ask: Isn't the individual's capacity to learn more important than regurgitating to pass a certification test?
I don’t have time to read this right now but I’m gonna comment so I might be able to come back to it.<p>The answer is yes. We are workers. We’re just as likely to benefit ourselves and others in solidarity by organizing as other workers. The resistance to the idea is cultural and a class misalignment.
One of my most serious laughs was a programming aptitude test designed by a psychologist that I could see never got past basic Fortran.<p>It tested your ability to program basic loops, but I could see an algorithm that would have enveloped the loops,but the test had no questions about that.<p>So what do you want out of a developer? How about an ability to dig into the problem domain and come up with an economic way to produce a good solution from the available data?