Newly-minted MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers) I had MCSE back in the day (my org wanted n of them so it could become a gold partner of Microsoft or

Newly-minted MCSE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers) I had MCSE back in the day (my org wanted n of them so it could become a gold partner of Microsoft or something, and the perks such as MSDN subs and 10 support calls were nice). What killed it was "braindumps", people weirdly undermining their own certification by posting the questions they could remember online, until databases of all the questions were built up, at that point you could literally just memorise the exam, or blatantly cheat in some locations. That was why it was worthless; but someone who had actually learnt the material the old-fashioned way would be competent.