pentesting requires fast thinking, an ability to learn quickly, and solve unusual challenges on the go. It could be considered dangerous to become comfortable h

pentesting requires fast thinking, an ability to learn quickly, and solve unusual challenges on the go. It could be considered dangerous to become comfortable having lessons to teach you new skills, and fairly arbitrary exams that are a poor replica of the real world to assess your own skill set. A lot of good employers know this, and put zero weight on certa. Or as tptacek mentioned, possibly even consider it a bad thing. If I see a CV with CEH, I go in with an open mind but aware it's probably going to go poorly. I'd rather see someone who bought a stack of books, wrote some vulnerable code to attack, asked for advice from people; demonstrated they could throw themselves in and make it up as they go along.