Certs show the candidate is in the upper 90% of the group. Its no different than fizzbuzz. Its very much like stack ranking and tossing out the bottom 10%, th

Certs show the candidate is in the upper 90% of the group. Its no different than fizzbuzz. Its very much like stack ranking and tossing out the bottom 10%, those being the cert-less. My day job maybe 15, 20 years ago was basically Cisco CCNP Routing test. It was kinda useful to study and pass Cisco Switching test because switching is a different world of networking. Probably I was in the top 10% of router ops, but I was only in the top 90% of switch ops. For many jobs thats perfectly OK. Something very few people like to talk about is self inflation of company requirements. Top 90th percentile is frankly more than good enough for most companies. Yes lots of self important strutting about rockstars and ninjas but all they really need, often all they can get, is top 90th percentile, and it works out fine. A cert is not a Nobel prize or Congressional Medal of Honor. Its not even a PHD. Its kinda like graduating middle school, or having a clean-ish criminal record. Maybe the best example is its like passing a drug test for a job, having the self control to not get high for a whopping two or three days before the test is kind of a minimum display of self discipline to get a job.