Yeah, but nurses have real professional licensing exams and maintenance requirements; in technology we don't, and instead every employer is trying to incorporate (often, cargo culting) the equivalent basic competency evaluation as well as any unique employer-specific requirements into their own hiring process, so it's at best cumbersome and redundant and at worst absurdly perverse.
My wife has been a nurse for 12 years and there's some truth to that, but "license" in their case goes way beyond kubernetes certification :). It's like if someone hands you an up-to-date pilot's license and log book you know they can fly proficiently. We don't have that in software, as far as I know, so that automatic respect for the document isn't there.
Yes, and you also don't have nurses having to train for different "flavors" of humans (I'm speaking in a general practice sort of way, of course there are speciality nurses). If you know how to draw blood, you don't have to learn a whole new system based on the type of hypodermic needle you use. In the Kubernetes world, you'd need to know how to use AWS, GKE, your own custom stack, etc, in addition to knowing how to draw blood on this particular version of this flavor of human.
I've worked with some people (present company excluded, of course ;) ) on the operations and development side that seem like they didn't pass much more of an interview to get their position... ;)
