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This is maligned and dangerous. It has been shown that credentialing hurts the marketplace and consumers. Having a credential authority would not cause there to be a skill bar, it would just require all of us to pay money to a worthless authority.

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> it would just require all of us to pay money to a worthless authority.

Today these authorities are universities.

HackerRank-style test are one of the few ways into a good career for lower-class people who have the skills but can't afford the credentials.

It has been shown where? Please don't forget that inexperienced practitioners also hurt the marketplace and customers. Every data breach because someone kept a plaintext password field in MySQL hurts the customers. Every lost hour of productivity because of shoddy code hurts customers.

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