Tech Certifications Value
The cluster debates the value and effectiveness of professional certifications in the tech industry, particularly whether they demonstrate genuine skills, aid hiring, or act as red flags for recruiters preferring practical experience like projects or open source contributions.
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Certifications provide a structured roadmap of self studying a technology. As a hiring manager, I give them very little consideration because passing an exam doesn't mean the person actually understands the concepts.
Well it _has_, but sure you can bring the value of the certifications into question
Sounds like it's time to make your own certification. :D
Would you like some Certifications with that?
Do you work for a consultancy or internally at {Microsoft|Amazon|Google}? If not, then certs aren't for you.
Cool. Do you allow some kind of certification too?
Isn't that what certification is? COMPTIA etc?
Certifications are contra-indicative in my experience, unless you are hiring someone to take multiple-choice tests (the answers to which are all over the web on "braindump" sites). I've often interviewed candidates with lots of certifications but when asked, so when did you use this feature/language/technology "for real"?, they come up blank. And of course, people who have been there and done that don't need to bother with certificates.
Create a pet project or two, contribute to open source. These will show what you actually know, where as a certification will largely just become a way for people to game the system.
That's what certification is there for, isn't it?