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curious question since you mentioned you were a junior pentester, do you see any value in the CompTia Pentest+ cert? e.g. does it guarantee interviews? or its s

• mettamage 6y ago
  I've never done pentesting professionally, but I trained with someone who passed his OSCP, and while he was quicker, my knowledge was a lot deeper (especially in reverse engineering). We considered each other to be at each others' level. He's a junior pentester now :) I think he did find that his OSCP helped for recruiters. We both don't know anything about CompTia Pentest+ ------ I got a reaction from my friend. Based on his impression about CompTia Pentest+: it depends on what cert is valued. In The Netherlands OSCP and CEH are the most well-known. CompTia Pentest+ looks most like CEH in terms of design and exam format (based on his quick glance of the curriculum). Take a certificate that recruiters actually look for, because that does help. Even if the certificate doesn't match the job that you're doing, it shows a lot of dedication. For example, the network skills that my friend learned at OSCP (and while we were training) are almost not needed for the web pentesting that he does. He also says that his company feels less hesistant to hire someone with OSCP compared to CEH. OSCP is quite hardcore compared to CEH.