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The lack of qualifications/accreditations in tech not only makes hiring frustrating but it also means as an industry we’re in an endless cycle of knowledge sharing; always having to re-invent the basics, to re-share the fundamentals to a new cohort of developers. We need a baseline shared understanding for developing software in each domain — when someone says they’re an X developer we should all know that they know the fundamentals of X and they should have confidence to know that they’re aren’t any holes in their knowledge of X.
It took me nearly 10 years between writing my first HTML and JS, and understanding things like ARIA attributes and CORS, simply because you don’t know what you don’t know. If I’m hiring a frontend dev, how can I know that they’re familiar with everything without asking 1000 questions? When I’m helping even a senior dev with decades of “full stack” experience, how can I approach a conversation without a firm grasp on our shared understanding? When writing a blog post or a tutorial, how can I describe the target audience without falling back on the lowest common denominator? We NEED qualifications