Do you think software engineering should be a licensed profession? Or do you think it eventually will be? There is so much at stake at times with what we do. While I think software a decent enough job with regulation where it really matters (financial or self driving like development), I’m sure it’s not to the par of what it should be. To add, engineers have a pretty easy recovery should they act in bad faith.
I previously worked at a credit union where software developer salaries were way under market ($50k–$60k), prompting me to leave and triple my income. I later discovered that the chief of technology hired a former developer and close friend as a remote, part-time contractor at a triple-digit hourly rate. This individual maintains a separate full-time job and works completely flexible hours, 20-40 hours. This feels like blatant cronyism. Is there any recourse?
I keep blowing past my own estimates, and I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to get more accurate. Every time I think I've scoped something out, the actual work takes way longer than I planned. What's helped you close the gap between what you think something will take and how long it really ends up being?
My current full-time job is a total dead end and I'm miserable, but it's stable. A recruiter reached out about a contract-to-hire position that's exactly what I want to be doing, but I'm wondering if it's just going to be a glorified temp job. Would it be crazy to leave a permanent position for this?
No, because the licensing will never keep up with the skills actually required
Worse than that, it'd actively hold back the skills in use, because by EOD on the day the licensing was announced, recruiters everywhere (and their pet AIs) would be requiring it in their job postings.
We’ll be lucky if it’s even a valid career in the next several years. The software/tech industry has always been in the practice of offshored jobs to save corporate money and outside of immigration laws, it’s totally unregulated. In addition to that we now need to contend with the way ai is replacing people and contaminating the hiring process. This isn’t a career that rewards hard work and dedication and as long as the greedy corporate types are calling the shots it’ll continue to erode.