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As someone who has seen my share of “paper tigers” - people that either memorize enough to pass a certification or find brain dumps online. Certifications are
by scarface74 4y ago
As someone who has seen my share of “paper tigers” - people that either memorize enough to pass a certification or find brain dumps online. Certifications are useless and easily gamed. This has been true sense at least 2000.
When I was working in the “real world” (I’m in consulting now), I could tell the people who just studied for a cert within the first 5 minutes of an interview.
- jedberg 4y agoMost industry cert exams require internships before taking the exam. It could work like that. I agree with you that most certs suck and are meaningless, but there are a few that are actually hard to get and meaningful.