Comment by netdevphoenix

> any employers would survive long if it transpired they were disfavouring members of IEEE, ACM, IET or whatever.

I highly doubt most employers even know what those organisations are. Taking it even further, there is probably even a significant amount of devs that are unaware of them as well. I don't think devs have this much power. Unless you are a tech company, devs are likely highly replaceable and in my opinion the trend goes in that direction. Obviously, this excludes skilled FAANG devs