Having been in the industry for over 30 years, it has been my experience that most certifications aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on — unless the HR depa

Having been in the industry for over 30 years, it has been my experience that most certifications aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on — unless the HR department uses them as gates to keep out the riff-raff. So that’s how they mostly get used. If you don’t have the necessary certifications, you don’t get past the HR bot, and your application is never seen by a live human being. Back in the day, Netware certifications really meant something. And then Cisco certifications really meant something. Most Unix/Unix-like certifications, not so much. These days, low-level AWS certifications are relatively easy to get. The higher end certifications do seem to be more difficult to obtain, and do appear to require that you actually know your stuff. I can’t speak for any other certifications.