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Re:No other profession trivialises their profession to the d... by EnKopVand on Thursday March 10, 2022 @02:21AM (#30624031)
I think you’re right. My experiences in the Danish enterprise sector has been that banking and medical are very serious. But that can’t be taken as a universal truth.

I also think it depends on how you define quality. In terms of medical my qualification criteria is based around a 0 deaths or 0 failure rate over a lifetime, not so much what it was build with. Some people would likely disagree with that.

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Re:No other profession trivialises their profession to the d... by Nursie on Thursday March 10, 2022 @02:27AM (#30624097)
Serious, with a focus on quality, yes I guess that is there in finance. People's money is at stake so we need to have well designed standards, protocols etc.

But for who gets in the door for implementation work, it's still tech conversations and a bit of "who you know" that count over qualifications and hard tests, in my experience.

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