Additionally technical certificates supposedly measure competency in a particular technology. That technology is obsolete roughly at the time you're sitting to

Additionally technical certificates supposedly measure competency in a particular technology. That technology is obsolete roughly at the time you're sitting to write the exam. So you've spent time learning material (assuming you didn't already know it) to cover a technology that will be in the process of being replaced as you sit down to write the exam. You may as well have spent the time using the skills productively rather than using it to obtain a piece of paper that says your skills are obsolete... Plus there's the financial outlay of it; costs to obtain the course material and sit the exam. These points (including yours) basically amount to my bias against obtaining certificates. I'm not against the material itself, if it's useful. But I'm not in the habit of paying for or spending time on education for anything other than the value of my interest in the material. A piece of obsolete paper does nothing for me at this point in my career. YMMV