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A few years ago we were required to pass Microsoft's certification exams, one of the options was to do it online. Their requirement was that the name/surname in
by kgeist 5y ago
A few years ago we were required to pass Microsoft's certification exams, one of the options was to do it online. Their requirement was that the name/surname in the application form had to be identical to what's in your ID (you also had to attach scans of your ID). The problem is, we're from Russia, and the form didn't allow Cyrillic letters, and there's only Cyrillic letters in a Russian ID. We had to fly all the way to St.Petersburg to pass exams offline in a Microsoft-approved certification center, instead of just doing it online in our office. Another option was getting a travel passport (it contains a Latin transliteration), but the deadlines didn't allow us to wait for up to 1 month (maximum time for issuing a travel passport here).
- R0b0t1 5y agoThey refused to accept a romanization? If so that's doubly bad. Excusing technical deficiencies is one thing, but preventing people from working around them is indicative of a high level organizational failure.
- kgeist 5y agoYes, it had to be identical. The problem with romanization of Cyrillic is that there's no commonly accepted standard, and I suspect the employees who process the applications were very unlikely to be Russian, so they would have no idea how to match our romanized variant to what's found on the ID scans. At least if they allowed Cyrillic in the submit form, they could have compared it visually as a set of pictograms, no need to know Cyrillic by heart. And it wasn't some US-only application thing we ran into by mistake, it talked about providing identification documents "of your country". But for some reason, they excluded all countries which don't use Latin alphabet.
- secondaryacct 5y agoCountries which are getting rarer and rarer. I'm in China and we havent yet faced such problems at the office (we too are mandated to get those certs). But in China, there are 5 Microsoft-approved offline training centers per metro station in any city with IT employees + the flats are so small you cant possible be uninterrupted during the exam during covid, so we mostly go offline.