alt Hacker News> In serious professions, people take exams early in their careers for being certified. Sometimes they take additional exams to renew their certificates. And that's all.
The field of programming emerged from mathematics, not engineering unfortunately. So we lack any useful certification processes.
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IshKebab • last Monday at 12:00 PM
It's not like all engineers are certified. And people have tried to create certifications for programming, they just suck.
At many schools, CS departments emerged from Electrical Engineering departments. Some (MIT, Berkeley, ...) even have a combined EECS department, while others (Stanford) are part of the school of engineering.
However, it does not seem to be common practice for computing professionals to acquire professional engineering certification. (Perhaps graduation from an accredited program is considered to be equivalent?)
There do seem to be Professional Engineer (PE) certifications for computer engineering at least:
https://ncees.org/exams/pe-exam/electrical-and-computer/
https://ncees.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/FINAL_PE-Electr...
There are also company-specific certifications (from Microsoft, Cisco, etc.) but those are less general.