Comment by groundzeros2015

Do you think fields that have formal criteria don’t use resumes with keywords? I bet Lawyers look for school names and big law firms all the time.

Credentialing helps maintain a quality floor. Does this person have basic employable skill? Nothing more. It actually doesn’t help you identify levels of talent and skill which is a universal hiring problem.

We do have a credential - a CS degree. And you can see it is a mixed signal. Employers can choose of their own free will to take risks on employees that do have this credential, or not.

Mandating by law that you must have a CS degree doesn’t seem to help our field as we famously have high performers across the spectrum of formal education.