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I personally paid one course and one specialization courses. There are the reasons why I paid: 1. The course is awesome and I want to support the authors. 2.
by paukiatwee 11y ago
I personally paid one course and one specialization courses.
There are the reasons why I paid:
1. The course is awesome and I want to support the authors.
2. The course I paid is new learning area I never use professionally during job but I wish to use at my job (or new job). Instead of say "I interested in XYZ", I said "I interested in XYZ so I took online course to learn" at my interview. This is to partially solve chicken and egg problem.
3. For serious courses, I pay so I can have pressure and motivation to complete it.
- OJFord 11y agoIf you've reached that stage yet, have you found prospective employers appreciate the (paid-for) certificate? Over taking the course and saying "I'm interested in X, so I took the course for free, and consequently have no proof to show you".
- Zyst 11y agoI have some Machine Learning certificates from Coursera, and at the gig I'm working some really entry level Machine Learning was required. I do believe it helped when I told them about the courses I took, showed them some code I had backed up online, at least it let them know I wasn't just completely bluffing.
- paukiatwee 11y agoIn me experience, employers does not care whether it is free or paid, they care more about your passion to learn.
- nl 11y agoYes, though the paid certs aren't much better than the unpaid. Source: hiring manager for Data Scientist/Engineers. I find lots of PhDs who can't code and lots of software devs who can't build a regression model. If you are a software developer who has done the Coursera ML course and/or a Kaggle then your resume gets read.
- collyw 11y agoSurely the next question in the interview would be to ask a bit about the course and what was taught in it. No one asks to see my University qualifications in interview, an instead ask fairly irrelevant algorithmic questions (I am a database / systems engineer).
- achompas 11y agoIt depends on the role. For our team, IMO the difference in attention is epsilon, since we already see so many applicants who have a minimum required exposure to ML. Source: not the hiring manager but involved in reviewing candidates for a DS team.
- irixusr 11y agoIf you don't mind which courses did you pay for? Especially, which ones did you pay because they were so high quality?
- paukiatwee 11y agoI took: 1. Functional Programming Principles in Scala[1] 2. Machine Learning Specialization [2] [1]: https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun [2]: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/machine-learning https://www.coursera.org/specializations/machine-learning
- goralph 11y ago1 is a fantastic course. It changed my life, quite literally. Lead me down a path to a new job, new city, and a new partner.
- irixusr 11y agoIf you don't mind which courses did you pay for? Especially, which ones did you pay because they were so high quality?