It’s also sign (IMO) of the rapid growth in the field.
When there is a severe shortage of warm bodies and things go up and to the right, a lot of ‘less important’ expectations get overlooked.
When it does that for a long time, people sometimes forget why the original expectations were even there in the first place. Then, when it’s no longer up and to the right, we have to figure it all out again or it falls apart.
Do it enough time and it gets embedded in official professional standards, etc.
That said, I’ve certainly run across many Engineers (with the ring type) that do plenty of unprofessional things. They just figure out how to do them passive aggressively or sidestep what would run afoul of the official standards. But it’s the same thing.
That's pretty much in line with my observations as well.
It's not to say that accredited engineers are automatically better, or that accredited engineering programmes are perfect, or anything like that. Like you pointed out, there's no shortage of examples/arguments to the contrary. (Personally, my background is medical, so it's a bit different than accredited engineering programmes, but I also am familiar with those having been involved in a bunch of senate-level evaluation of programmes, etc, at my school.)
But I do think accredited programs have certain benefits, and that the software world should pay attention to what other engineering disciplines get right.
When there is a severe shortage of warm bodies and things go up and to the right, a lot of ‘less important’ expectations get overlooked.
When it does that for a long time, people sometimes forget why the original expectations were even there in the first place. Then, when it’s no longer up and to the right, we have to figure it all out again or it falls apart.
Do it enough time and it gets embedded in official professional standards, etc.
That said, I’ve certainly run across many Engineers (with the ring type) that do plenty of unprofessional things. They just figure out how to do them passive aggressively or sidestep what would run afoul of the official standards. But it’s the same thing.